Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Champlin, Albert a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in East Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 3,1809. He was converted among the Congregationalists in 1825; joined the Methodists in 1827; soon after was licensed to exhort, and in 1834 entered the Troy Conference. He became superannuated in 1868, and died in Charlotte, Vt., June 18, 1872. Mr. Champlin … Continue reading “Champlin, Albert”

Champlain, Samuel de (1570 -1635 ) Founder of Quebec and father of New France , born Brouage, France ; died Quebec, Canada . He was a navigator and geographer to the king, and suggested uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a canal through Nicaragua. In 1603 he visited Canada , and chose the site … Continue reading “Champlain, Samuel de”

Championship Instances of battles decided by: – Goliath and David 1Sa 17:8-53 – Young men of David’s and Abner’s armies 2Sa 2:14-17 – Representatives of the Philistines’ and David’s armies 2Sa 21:15-22 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Champion, William a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in St. Just, near Penzance, England, May 23, 1817. He united with the Church in 1840; began preaching in 1843; emigrated to America in 1848, and in 1850 was admitted to the Baltimore Conference. Between 1861 and 1867 he held a superannuated relation, and from that time … Continue reading “Champion, William”

Champion, Pierre a French Jesuit and biographer, was born at Avranches, Normandy, Oct. 19, 1631. He entered the order of the Jesuits in 1651, and taught rhetoric ten years. Afterwards he went with a French fleet to Cayenne as chancellor, and on his return settled at Nantes, where he died, June 28, 1701. He wrote, … Continue reading “Champion, Pierre”

Champion, Judah a Congregational minister, graduated from Yale College in 1751; was ordained pastor of the Church in Litchfield, Conn., July 4, 1753, and died in 1810. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 512. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Champion, George a Congregational minister, was born in Connecticut in 1809. He graduated from Yale College in 1831, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1834; was ordained and became a missionary to South Africa the same year, and died at Santa Cruz, W. I., Dec. 17, 1841. See Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, … Continue reading “Champion, George”

Champion, Francois a French theologian of the order of the Carmelites, who lived in the latter part of the 17th century, left a Latin poem called Stagna (Paris, 1686; in the Panata Didascalica, Paris, 1749,3 vols. 12mo). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gnrale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Champion, Antoine de a Swiss prelate, was first senator and then president of the senate of Chambery. On the death of his wife he embraced the ecclesiastical state, and was appointed bishop of Mondovi in 1485. Pope Innocent VIII nominated him bishop of Geneva in 1491, but the chapter there called as their bishop Charles … Continue reading “Champion, Antoine de”

Champion (Nee Palmer), Esther a minister in the Society of Friends, was born about 1680. She was converted in youth, and in the course of her ministry, after having traveled many thousand miles in America, visited some parts of Great Britain, and was especially useful in London. She died Sept. 3, 1714. See Piety Promoted, … Continue reading “Champion (Nee Palmer), Esther”