Category: Archives and History

From the Archives – Bishop Whittingham’s Visitation to Western Maryland, 1840

Oct 29, 2024 | Archives and History, Belong, Diocesan News

With interstate highways and 70-mile-per-hour travel, it still takes three hours to travel by car from Baltimore to Western Maryland, but in 1840, Maryland’s newly-consecrated bishop faced longer and more primitive travel and communicated using written, hand-delivered letters during his first foray into the westernmost reaches of his new diocese. In the age before Facebook, Instagram and other social media, Bishop Whittingham shared and documented his travels using hand-delivered letters and handwritten entries in his journals.

From the Archives: Bishop Stone, Part II

Apr 17, 2024 | Archives and History

Bishop Stone’s tenure as Diocesan bishop may have been relatively brief, but he tried to navigate the divisions in the diocese and helped to transition the church into an era of growth, focusing on education, missionary work and clergy compensation. He was remembered as having lived “a life consecrated to Christ and His Church”.

From the Archives: Bishop Stone, Part I

Apr 3, 2024 | Archives and History

The Maryland Diocesan Archives recently received the gift of a lovely oil portrait of our third bishop, William Murray Stone. “The Bishops’ Gallery”, located in the undercroft of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, displays oil portraits of deceased Bishops of Maryland, and the one depicting Bishop Stone, done by an anonymous painter, is not of the most professional quality. We will be happy to mount our newly acquired portrait, whose story is almost as interesting as the story of Bishop Stone himself.

St. Mary’s, Hampden, Part II

Jan 2, 2024 | Archives and History, Diocesan News, Encounter, ME Print Version, Parish Ministry

Saint Mary’s Outreach Center was begun in 2002 to respond to social and economic needs of the community, and the Episcopal Housing Corporation along with St. David’s Thrift shop were its first tenants. The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, dedicated to producing affordable classical theater, used the church building as a theater for several years.

St. Mary’s, Hampden, Part I

Dec 14, 2023 | Archives and History, Diocesan News, Encounter, ME Print Version, Mission and Outreach

Since the beginning of the century, small stone houses had been built for the mill workers in the area, and outsiders called the area “Slabtown,” presumably because of the architecture of the small houses. Both the inhabitants and the new stake-holders disliked the name, and Henry Mankin came up with the name Hampden, which sounded more distinguished.