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LATANE, James Allen, R. E. bishop, born in Essex county, Virginia, 15 January, 1831. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1852 and studied law, but in 1854 entered the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary near Alexandria, Virginia, and in 1856 was made deacon by Bishop Meade at Millwood, Virginia He was rector of a church at Staunton, Virginia, from 1857 till 1871, and then at Wheeling, West Virginia, till January, 1874, when he formally withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal church and announced his adhesion to the Reformed Episcopal tenets. Returning to his early home, he founded a church in Essex county and one in King William county. He declined a bishopric in 1876 when elected to the office at Chicago, but accepted on being again chosen in 1879, and was assigned to the southern jurisdiction. At the general council of the church in Baltimore, in 1883, he was unanimously elected presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal church of the United States. He has resided in Baltimore, Maryland, since 1880, in charge of the Bishop Cumming memorial church.
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