Coxe, Right Rev. Arthur Cleveland

D.D. (St. James College, Hagerstown, Md., 1856), S.T.D. (Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1868), LL.D. (Kenyon College, Gambier, O., 1868), Episcopalian, bishop of AVestern New York; b. at Mendham, N.J., May 10, 1818; graduated at the University of the City of New York, 1838, and at the General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary, 1841; became rector at Hartford, Conn., 1842; Baltimore, Md., 1854; and of Calvary Church, New-York Citv, 1863; bishop of Western New York, 1865. From 1872 to 1874 he was provisional bishop of the church in Haiti, which he visited officially. Pie was prominent in the formation of the Anglo-Continental Society (1853), and gave it its name. He vigorously and succe fully opposed the attempt of the American Bible Society to make slight alterations in the text and punctuation of the Bible i ued (see art. Bible Societies, vol. i. p. 263 sq.) and, consistently, also the work of the Revision Committee, but was among the first to advocate the revision of the Prayer Book. He has taken great interest in all that concerns Gallican ism and Anglo-Catholicism. He attended the second Lambeth Conference, 1878. He has written much on behalf of the many interests which have claimed his attention. In collaboration with the late Bishop Wilberforce he began in 1873 the i ue of a serial in defence of Anglo-Catholicism as against Romanism. Among his separate publications may be mentioned his volumes of poetry, Advent, a Mystery, New York, 1837; Athwold, 1838; Christian Ballads, 1840; A than as i on, and other Poems, 1842; Halloween, 1844; Saul, a Mystery, 1845. In prose, Sermons on Doctrine and Duty, 1854; Impre ions of England, 1856; The Criterion, 1866 (in which he defines his position in the Oxford movement);. Moral Reforms, 1869; An Open Letter to Pius IX... (in answer to his brief convoking the Vatican Council), 1869 (widely circulated, and translated into various European languages); L'Episcopat de V Occident, Paris, 1872 (widely circulated by the Anglo-Continental Society); Apollos, or the Way of God, New York, 1874; Covenant Prayers, 1875; The Penitential, 1882. He is the editor of the American reprint of Clark's Ante-Nicene Library, Buffalo, 1885-86, 8 vols.