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Charles Edward Cheney (born Feb. 12, 1836, Canandaigua, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1916, Chicago) was a controversial American clergyman who helped found the Reformed Episcopal Church. Cheney became rector of Christ Church, Chicago, in 1860, the year he was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. A pronounced evangelical, he joined others in signing the “Chicago Protest” against “unprotestantizing” tendencies in the church, issued on Feb. 18, 1869. Brought to trial before an ecclesiastical...