Henry Winter Syle
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Henry Winter Syle (November 9, 1846 - January 6, 1890) was the first deaf person to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Henry Winter Syle was born in Shanghai, China; Syle was a student and parishioner of Thomas Gallaudet. He was deaf from an early age. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, St. John's College in Cambridge, England,[1] and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Syle was encouraged to become a priest by Gallaudet. On October 14, 1884, he became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church in the United States. He established a congregation for the deaf in 1888 and died on January 6, 1890.
He is commemorated along with his teacher, Thomas Gallaudet on August 27 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
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- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Syle, Henry Winter". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
