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“It is my pleasure to make this worshipping community a mission of the Diocese of Maryland. As a new mission, I charge this congregation to choose a name for itself and continue to gather for worship on Sundays.” The congregation chose the name “La Iglesia de los Tres Santos Reyes” – the Church of the Three Holy Kings.

In a 1983 scholarship application for Palomares, Bishop Leighton wrote, “This is our first Hispanic candidate. We hope to begin our first Spanish-speaking congregation in this port city as soon as Ricardo is ordained. He is eminently qualified, being a highly educated person.”

As rector of Somerset Parish, the Rev. Alexander Adams wrestled with the moral question of the salvation and Christianization of slaves. With so few Anglican clergy on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, The Reverend Mr. Adams served one parish then another in Somerset County during his long ministry.

James Lloyd Breck, priest, missionary and “Apostle of the Wilderness” is commemorated in the Episcopal Church’s liturgical calendar on April 2. Breck had a long and close relationship with Maryland’s Bishop William R. Whittingham, whom he first met in 1838 at General Theological Seminary, where Breck was a student and Whittingham taught Ecclesiastical History.