John Henry Hobart

John Henry Hobart (born Sept. 14, 1775, Philadelphia—died Sept. 12, 1830, Auburn, N.Y., U.S.) was a U.S. educator, publisher, author, and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church whose emphasis upon the discipline of orthodoxy during the inchoate post-Revolutionary period in American history—when all things English were suspect—helped Anglicanism to expand in a new nation without compromising its traditions. In 1806 in New York City Hobart founded the Protestant Episcopal Theological Society (later the General Theological...