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WHITEHEAD, Cortlandt, P. E. bishop, born in New York city, 30 October, 1842. He was graduated at Yale in 1863, ordered deacon at the close of a three years' theological course in the Philadelphia divinity-school, on 21 June, 1867, in Trinity church, Newark, New Jersey, by Bishop Odenheimer, and ordained priest in St. Mark's chapel, Black Hawk, Colonel, 7 August, 1868, by Bishop Randall. After serving as a missionary in Colorado three years he returned to the east, and became rector of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his elevation to the episcopate. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1880. During his rectorship at Bethlehem he was assistant secretary of the diocese of central Pennsylvania for eleven years, and twice a deputy to the general convention from that diecese. He was consecrated bishop of Pittsburg in Trinity church, Pittsburg, 25 January, 1882. Bishop Whitehead attended the third Pan-Anglican council in London in 1888.
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