John Henry Hopkins - RLJHH
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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John Henry Hopkins - RLJHH
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Painting - 22k Gold & Acrylic
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John Henry Hopkins was born in Dublin, Ireland. Immigrating in 1800 to Philadelphia, he began his education under the able tutelage of his mother. Reading Shakespeare before the age of nine, he demonstrated early in his life unique intellectual, artistic, and musical skills, which later were to punctuate his influence in diocesan and national church life.
In Hopkins was found the unusual combination of erudition and devotion. He introduced Gothic architecture to Episcopal church building, read the works of the Church Fathers in the original Greek and Latin, and was a compassionate and faithful pastor. His deepest desire and unremitting vision, however, was to establish a diocesan seminary. This hope led him to Boston in 1831, but when support for a seminary was withdrawn, he consented to his election in 1832 as the first Bishop of Vermont. His lifelong dream eventually was realized in 1860 with the opening of the Vermont Episcopal Institute at Rock Point on Lake Champlain, outside Burlington.
Bishop Hopkins was an avowed high churchman, but he was foremost a churchman of principle. In 1827 he declined to become a bishop because his vote would have decided the election in his favor. He told his son that had he voted for himself he would have lived out his days wondering whether his will or God’s had been done. He served as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1865-68 and his urging led to the inception of the Lambeth Conference, an every-decade gathering of all bishops in the Anglican Communion, which continues today.
The reliance of Bishop Hopkins on the virtue of hope during his episcopate was demonstrated repeatedly amidst financial depressions, mass emigration from Vermont to the burgeoning west, personal bankruptcy, and sensational church controversies. He is depicted holding Trinity Church, Rutland, of which he was both the architect and, from 1860-61, Rector. The Greek surrounding him reads, “Blessed John Henry.”
His feast day is January 9.
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