William Chauncy Langdon (1831–1895) was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman and a prominent American proponent of the YMCA.
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He founded three Episcopal Churches in Europe: Grace Church in Rome, 1859 (later renamed as St. Paul's Within the Walls); St James's in Florence, c. 1870; and Emmanuel_Episcopal_Church_(Geneva), 1873. These are now parishes of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe.
His son by the same name (1871–1947) was an historian of pageants.
General references
edit- Esolen, Anthony. 2020. “No Option: Clear Out the Rubble & Rebuild!” Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity 33 (4): 28–38. EBSCOhost 144254735
- Hoefnagel, Dick & Virginia L. Close. "Charles N Haskins and the Woodward Room at Baker Library". Dartmouth College Library Bulletin.
- "William Chauncy Langdon." In Dictionary of American Biography. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: Biography (accessed January 16, 2021). Gale BT2310009415
- Stefano Villani, “William Chauncey Langdon e l’attività del Comitato sulla Riforma italiana della Chiesa Protestante Episcopale negli Stati Uniti d’America (1865-1874),” Protestantesimo, 73 (2018), pp. 129-186.