Bexley Hall

Bexley Hall is a seminary in Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. [Bexley Hall [http://www.bexley.edu/contact.html contact] retrieved on June 12, 2008] It is one of 11 official seminaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and identifies itself as liberal Anglo-Catholic in orientation. [Cite web
url=http://www.bexley.edu/introduction/index.html
title=Introduction
accessdate=2008-06-12
quote=We are a seminary in the liberal Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism. ]

History

The seminary was established in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase in conjunction with the establishment of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Bexley Hall was later identified separately, and was named in honour of Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, an early benefactor of Kenyon College. [http://www1.kenyon.edu/tour/bexley.phtml Bexley and Coburn Halls] at Kenyon College website. Retrieved on September 8, 2006. "For more than a century, this building was the home of the seminary known as Bexley Hall. Kenyon was founded in 1824 as both a college and a seminary, with the aim of training Episcopal clergy for America's western frontier."]

Bexley Hall disassociated with Kenyon in 1968 and moved from Gambier to Rochester, New York where it affiliated with Colgate Rochester Divinity School (which since became Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.) Although the seminary is no longer affiliated with Kenyon College, the 1839 seminary building in Gambier now houses fine art facilities for Kenyon, and is still known as "Bexley Hall".

In 1998, Bexley Hall re-established a campus in Ohio through a partnership with Trinity Lutheran Seminary of Columbus, Ohio, in a suburb coincidentally named Bexley. In February 2008, the dean announced the May closure of the Rochester campus, citing falling student numbers and more stringent accreditation requirements. [Cite news
url=http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/2/22/bexley-hall-to-close-rochester-campus
title=Bexley Hall to Close Rochester Campus
date=2008-02-22
accessdate=2008-06-12
quote=The decision to close the Rochester campus was based in part on changing demographics, Dean Kevern told The Living Church. Another factor was the more stringent standards the Rochester campus would have to meet when its accreditation from the Association of Theological Schools came up for renewal in 2012.
publisher=The Living Church News Service
author=Steve Waring]

Notable alumni

*S. Arthur Huston, 2nd bishop of Olympia
*Peter Kwong, first Archbishop and Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (香港聖公會) [Bexley Hall [http://bexley.edu.anglican.org/profiles/index.html Alumni] . Retrieved on September 8, 2006.]

References

External links

* [http://www.bexley.edu/ Bexley Hall]
* [http://www.trinitylutheranseminary.edu/BexleyHall.asp Bexley Hall at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus]