THOMPSON, Hugh Miller, P. E. bishop, born in County Londonderry, Ireland, 5 June, 1830. While he was yet a child his parents removed to the United States and settled in Ohio. He received his academical education in the schools of Cleveland, and his theological course was taken at Nashotah House, Wisconsin. He was ordered deacon at Nashotah, 6 June, 1852, by Bishop Kemper, and priest, in St. John's church, Portage, Wisconsin, 31 August, 1856. During his diaconate he had charge of Grace church, Madison, Wisconsin. He removed in 1853 to Maysville, Kentucky, but remained only one year. In August, 1854, he took charge of mission work in Portage and Baraboo, Wisconsin, and immediately on his ordination to the priesthood he became rector of St. John's church, Portage. At Easter, 1857, he engaged in mission work in the city of Milwaukee, and organized the Church of the Atonement. In 1858 he was elected rector of St. Matthew's church, Kenosha, and after one year removed to Galena, Illinois, and became rector of Grace church. In 1860 he was made professor of ecclesiastical history at Nashotah, and founded Kemper hall. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of "The American Churchman" at Chicago, and he continued in this office until the paper was merged into " The Churchman" at Hartford, Connecticut In 1871 he became rector of St. James's church, Chicago, which was burned in the great fire. In January, 1872, he removed to New York and took the rectorship of Christ church and the editorship of "The Church Journal and Gospel Messenger." In 1875 he became rector of Trinity church, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he remained until he was consecrated assistant bishop of Mississippi, 24 February, 1883. Four years later, on the death of Bishop Green, he succeeded to his office. Bishop Thompson attended the third Pan-Anglican conference in London in 1888, and in August of that year delivered in Westminster Abbey the funeral sermon of Bishop Harris of Michigan. Hobart conferred upon him the degree of S. T. D. in 1863. He is the author of "Unity and its Restoration " (New York, 1860);" Sin and its Penalty" (1862); "First Principles" (1868); "Absolution" (1872) ; "Copy" (1872) ; "Is Romanism the Best Religion for the Republic?" (1873); "The Kingdom of God" (1873) ; "The World and the Logos," a volume of lectures (1885); and "The World and the Kingdom" (1888).