My questions missed the anniversary of the
consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury on November 14 by a couple of
weeks. In 1784, the Rev Samuel Seabury, rector of St Peter's Church,
Westchester, NY, was consecrated first
Bishop for the Church of Connecticut by the Right Rev. Robert Kilgour,
Bishop of Aberdeen and Primus of Scotland, the Right Rev. Arthur Petrie,
Bishop of Ross and Moray, and the Right Rev. John Skinner, Coadjutor
Bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland, in Bishop Skinner's private chapel.
Would it be accurate to say that the Scottish Episcopal Church is the
mother church of the Episcopal Church in the US, rather than the Church
of England? The Church of England is the mother church of the Scottish
Episcopal Church, so would the Church of England then be the grandmother
church of TEC in the US?
