Episcopal Church of the Ascension - Table of Contents
East Nave Windows
Episcopal
Church of the Ascension / Ascension for the Arts
16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY
Ascension
for the Arts - Official Website (online
Jan. 2021)
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Jesus with Mary and Martha / St. George
Jesus Heals the Sick / Prodigal Son
Angelic Orchestra / Bishop's Window
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Jesus
with Mary and Martha / St. George East nave stained glass window ... Left panel: Jesus with Mary and Martha: Luke 10:38-42 (online Jan. 2021) Right panel: St. George ... Details below:  Jesus With Mary and Martha - Detail #1 ... Opalescent glass ... Five finials ... Note the similarity to the window details in the west nave figural windows, leading to the conclusion that these windows and the west nave figural windows were executed by the same studio  Jesus With Mary and Martha - Detail #2 ... Mottled glass in the background ... Hand painted, refired ("enameling") faces and hands  BJesus With Mary and Martha - Detail #3 St. George  St. George ... Three details below:  St. George - Detail #1  St. George - Detail #2  BSt. George - Detail #3  St. George - Detail #4 |
Jesus Heals the Sick / Prodigal Son This window was given in 1915 as a memorial by Jane Reeves Smith.  Jesus Heals the Sick / Prodigal Son ... Note the similarity to the window details in the west nave figural windows, leading to the conclusion that these windows and the west nave figural windows were executed by the same studio ... Details below:  Jesus Heals the Sick - Detail #1  Jesus Heals the Sick - Detail #2 Prodigal Son  Prodigal Son: Luke 15:11-32 (online Jan 2021) ... Detail below:  BProdigal Son detail |
Angelic Orchestra / Bishop's Window  Angelic Orchestra / Bishop's Window ... Details below:  Angelic Orchestra - Detail #1  Angelic Orchestra - Detail #2  Angelic Orchestra - Detail #3  Angelic Orchestra - Detail #4 Bishop's Window 1971 Designed by Paul Frohe of Buffalo and executed by the Tyroler Glasswerk of Innsbruck, Austria. It was made in five sections, shipped here by air express and installed by Mr. Frohe in November of 1971. It was given in memory of John and Ada Herzog to honor of all the Bishops of Western New York by Wilberforce Herzog. The 100-year-old window it replaced was saved and cut into souvenir suncatchers for the 100th anniversary of the building of the church.  Bishop's Window ... Six details below:  Bishop's Window - Detail #1 ... Episcopal shield and flag ... A tracery of purple thistle, the plant badge of Scotland, appears above and below the central figure as a reminder of the heritage of the Anglican Church of Scotland, whose Bishops consecrated the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church, Samuel Seabury, after the American Revolution. ... For more information, see The Scottish Roots of the Episcopal Church below  Bishop's Window - Detail #2 ... The window's central figure is displayed wearing a cape and miter with crosier which is a pastoral staff in the shape of the traditional shepherd's crook giving a blessing to his flock. The figure is meant as a generic representation honoring all of the bishops of Western New York.  BBishop's Window - Detail #3 ... Cross pattée  BBishop's Window - Detail #3 ... Thistles, the plant badge of Scotland  Bishop's Window - Detail #4 ... Shield of the Diocese of Western New York ... A tracery of thistle, the plant badge of Scotland, appears above and below the central figure as a reminder of the heritage of the Anglican Church of Scotland, whose Bishops consecrated the first bishop of the Episcopal Church, Samuel Seabury, after the American Revolution (see below).  |
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After the American Revolution, the Anglican Church in the former colonies was in a quandary: clergy in the Anglican tradition could only be ordained by bishops in apostolic succession, and Church of England Bishops could no longer ordain American clergy. Rather than accept a temporary form of ordination without Bishops, ten Anglican clergy from Connecticut met in 1783 to find another solution. They elected one Samuel Seabury, a former missionary in New York and ironically, a Loyalist who supported the British cause, to be their bishop. Seabury travelled to England, but was refused to be consecrated by Church of England Bishops, who said that they could not consecrate a person who would not take the required oath of loyalty to the British monarchy. Undaunted, Seabury then went to Scotland. The Scottish Episcopal Church, unlike the Church of England, was not the state church of Scotland.... On November 14, 1784, in the Long Acre Chapel of Saint Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, [Scotland,] Samuel Seabury was consecrated Bishop for America, the first Anglican Bishop to serve outside the British Isles, and thus laying the foundations for the worldwide Anglican [Episcopal] Communion. [Afterwards, the English Parliament was persuaded to make provision for the ordination of foreign bishops.] |
