A
service celebrating the life and work of Absalom Jones will be held on
Sunday, February 23 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Cyprian's, Hampton. Bishop
Hollerith will celebrate and the Rev. Willis Foster, rector of St.
Stephen's, Petersburg, will preach.
Absalom
Jones was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman. After
founding a black congregation in 1794, he was the first African
American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United
States, in 1804.
