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Anglicanism in Hawai'i


Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican Clergy in the Diocese of Honolulu 1862-1902 [pdf]
Compiled by Michael Blain. (2012, updated 2017)

Henry Bond Restarick, 1854-1933

Herbert Henry Gowen, 1864-1960


Sandwich Islands.
By Charles Smeathman.
From The Colonial Church Chronicle and Missionary Journal, No. LXXXIII (May, 1854), pages 430-433.

Hawaii: The Past, Present, and Future of its Island Kingdom: An Historical Account of the Sandwich Islands (Polynesia) by Manley Hopkins, Hawaiian Consul-General, etc.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862.

Preface by the Bishop of Oxford [Samuel Wilberforce]

A Visit to Lahaina
By John Sheepshanks
From Mission Life, Vol. VI (first series), September 1, 1869, pages 535-547.

Thomas Nettleship Staley, 1823-1898

Two Sermons
By Thomas Nettleship Staley (1863)

"The Waiting Isles." A Sermon preached at the Farewell Service of the Mission to the Sandwich Islands, in Westminster Abbey, July 23, 1862.
By the Right Rev. the Bishop of Honolulu.
Honolulu: Printed at the Polynesian Office, 1863.

An Inaugural Sermon preached in the Temporary Cathedral of Honolulu, October 18, 1862.
By the Right Rev. the Bishop of the Diocese.
Honolulu: Printed at the Polynesian Office, 1863.

Extracts from a Journal of the Bishop of Honolulu, September to November, 1862
London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts, 1863.

A Pastoral Address
By the Right Reverend the Bishop of Honolulu
Delivered in his Church on New Year's day, 1865, in reply to certain mis-statements in a recent report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Presbyterians and Congregationalists).
Honolulu: Printed at the Hawaiian Gazette Office, 1865.

The Hawaiian Church
From Mission Life, Vol. I (first series), September 1, 1866, pages 294-298.
From Mission Life, Vol. I (first series), October 1, 1866, pages 317-323.
From Mission Life, Vol. I (first series), November 1, 1866, pages 387-392.

Seed-Time and Harvest
[Sermon "preached at Hursley, Sept. 15, 1864, at a Farewell Service to the Hawaiian sisters"]
By John Keble
From Mission Life, Vol. I (first series) (October 1, 1866), pages 311-317.

The Cathedral at Honolulu, and the King of the Sandwich Islands.
From The Illustrated London News, June 8, 1867, pages 559-560.

Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii
By the Bishop of Honolulu
London, Oxford and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1868.

The Hawaiian Church.
From Mission Life, Vol. IV (Jan. 1, 1869), page 14.
From Mission Life, Vol. IV (January 1, 1869), pages 63-64
From Mission Life, Vol. IV (February 1, 1869), pages 82-84.

The Four Kamehamehas
From Mission Life, Vol. VI (March 1, 1869), pages 135-142.

The Hawaiian Mission
[By Alfred Willis]
From Mission Life, Vol. III, Part II (New Series), London, 1872, pages 644-646.

Notes of a Missionary Tour by the Bishop of Honolulu
[By Alfred Willis]
Excerpted from Mission Life, Volume IV (1873), pages 218-225.

My Introduction to the Hawaiian Islands
By the Rev. J. Bridger, Missionary at Wailuku
From Mission Life, Vol. V (1874), pages 601-605.

A Letter from the Right Rev. Alfred Willis, Bishop of Honolulu, to All Friends of the Hawaiian Mission and a Balance Sheet of Accounts for the Years 1874, 1875, and Part of 1876.
London: W. Knott, 1877. [External link]

The Church in Hawaii: The Bishop of Honolulu's Letter on the Affairs of the Mission, with List of Subscribers and Statements of Account, for the Year Ending 30th September, 1881.
[By Alfred Willis]
London: no publisher, 1882. [External link]

A Correspondence from Members of the English-speaking Congregation of St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Honolulu.
Honolulu: typescript, 1889.

The Principles of Government of the Anglican Church in Hawaii, traced to their source, for the settlement of certain controverted questions; to which is added a review of the present position of the Anglican Church in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Published by request of His Majesty King Kalakaua.
Honolulu, R. Grieve, 1890.

How Annexation Affects the Anglican Church in Hawaii. A Pastoral Letter from the Bishop of Honolulu, 1898.

Sequel to "Two Letters re the Anglican Church in Hawaii."
By John Usborne.
Honolulu: no publisher, 1898.

A Refutation of the Charge of Apostacy made by the Bishop of Honolulu against the Rector of Honolulu and the Trustees of St. Clement's Chapel, Honolulu
By John Usborne
Honolulu: no publisher, 1901.

An Open Letter from the Bishop of Honolulu to the Chairman of the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
By Alfred Willis.
Honolulu: The Mercantile Printing Co., 1902.

What the Church Has Done for a Chinese Layman in Honolulu.
By Yap See Young.
New York: no publisher, 1904.

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Honolulu Seamen's Institute.
Honolulu: Honolulu Seamen's Institute, 1921.

Handbooks on the Missions of the Episcopal Church.
No. VIII. Hawaiian Islands.
New York: The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Department of Missions, 1927.

St. Peter's Church, Honolulu, T.H.: An Historical Account of the First Chinese Episcopal Church in Hawaii. Fifty Years of Fruitful Service and Progress, 1886-1936,
By Yim Sang Mark.
[Honolulu] Printed by W.W. Ahana Print. Co., 1936.

The First Fifty Years of St. Elizabeth's Church, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1902-1952
By C. Fletcher Howe
Honolulu: The Advertiser Publishing, [1952]


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