Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Wama (or Vama), in Hind mythology, was the wife of king Aswarena, who sprang from the holy family of Ikswaka. She gave birth, by her husband, to Parswa, who became so renowned for his piety that he was made one of the twenty-three elders of Buddha. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Walworth, James, Blessed Martyr , died York, England , 1537. He was a Carthusian priest of the London Charterhouse, and was executed with Blessed John Rochester. Feast , 11 May . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Waltz, Henry C a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Wayne County, Ind., June 5, 1843. Hi spent his boyhood on a farm; entered. Indiana Asbury. University in 1860; was converted in 1862; graduated in 1866; spent twenty-two months in traveling over Europe and the Orient; lectured the following year on the sights, scenes, customs, … Continue reading “Waltz, Henry C”

Walton, William, D.D a professor and clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died in New York, Sept. 21, 1869, aged fifty-nine years. He was the eldest son of rear- admiral Walton of the British navy; and at the time of his death he was professor of Hebrew in the General Theological Seminary, New York city. … Continue reading “Walton, William, D.D”

Walton, William C a Presbyterian minister, was born in Hanover County, Va., Nov. 4, 1793. He was educated at Hampden Sidney College; licensed to preach Oct. 22, 1814; ordained April 25, 1818; and on May following was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hopewell. In 1823 he accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian … Continue reading “Walton, William C”

Walton, Robert Hall a Presbyterian divine, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1833. He entered Delaware College, and graduated in 1854, and commenced his theological studies in Union Seminary in 1857. He was ordained in 1860, and labored in the Broadway Church, Va., as a stated supply. From this he went to Georgia, and supplied … Continue reading “Walton, Robert Hall”

Walton, Jonathan, D.D an English clergy map of the Episcopal Church, was born in 1774; became rector of Birdbrook, in Essex, and rural dean; and died in 1846. He was the author of Lectures on Repentance: The Prodigal Son, etc. (1833): The Glory of the Latter House (1842): and several single Sermons. See Allibone, Dict. … Continue reading “Walton, Jonathan, D.D”

Walton, James a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born near Chester, S.C., Aug. 16, 1799. He removed to Knox County, Tenn., in early life, where he received a careful religious culture, and was trained in the art of agriculture; embraced religion at the early age of eight years; removed to Mississippi in … Continue reading “Walton, James”

Walton, Brian, D.D a learned English prelate, was born at Seamer, in the district of Cleaveland, in Yorkshire, in 1600. He was educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of A.M. in 1623. He first went to Suffolk as master of a school, and for, some time served as curate; he then went to … Continue reading “Walton, Brian, D.D”

Walton, Brian Biblical scholar, editor of Walton’s Polyglot Bible, born at Seymour, or Seamer, near York, in 1600; died in London, 29 November, 1661. He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1619-20, and M.A. in 1623. Ordained in the Anglican Church, he became a curate and also schoolmaster in Suffolk; in 1628 … Continue reading “Walton, Brian”