Bowen, John (2)
Bowen, John
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in -Bedford county, Pa., June 8, 1793, was licensed to preach in 1820. In 1823 he was admitted on trial in the Baltimore Conference; ordained a deacon by Bishop Soule, April 10, 1825, and an elder by Bishop Roberts, April 15, 1827. During two and-forty years he fulfilled this ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God; twenty-three in Pennsylvania, fourteen in Maryland (including nearly four years of superannuation), and five in Virginia. Twenty-six of these years were on large circuits, and twelve in stations. He died Nov. 18, 1864.- Minutes of Conferences, 1865, p. 11; Christian Advocate, May 11, 1865.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bowen, John (2)
LL.D., was an English colonial prelate. The early part of his life was spent in farming operations in Canada, and at one time he served in the militia of that country. In 1842 he went to Ireland, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, from which he regularly graduated. He was subsequently ordained; went to Palestine and the East in 1847, remaining three or four years, assisting Mr. Layard in his excavations at Nineveh; returned to England, and in 1853 became rector of Orton-Longville, with Botolph-bridge, remaining four years; was appointed to the see of Sierra Leone, being the third bishop of that diocese, the jurisdiction of which extends over the western coast of Africa between 20 N. and 20 S. He died of yellow fever, June 2, 1859, at Fourah Bay, near Freetown, Sierra Leone. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1859, p. 539.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bowen, John (2)
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in -Bedford county, Pa., June 8, 1793, was licensed to preach in 1820. In 1823 he was admitted on trial in the Baltimore Conference; ordained a deacon by Bishop Soule, April 10, 1825, and an elder by Bishop Roberts, April 15, 1827. During two and-forty years he fulfilled this ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God; twenty-three in Pennsylvania, fourteen in Maryland (including nearly four years of superannuation), and five in Virginia. Twenty-six of these years were on large circuits, and twelve in stations. He died Nov. 18, 1864.- Minutes of Conferences, 1865, p. 11; Christian Advocate, May 11, 1865.