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ACNS 3629     |     SCOTLAND	 |     16 OCTOBER 2003 

Seabury Day to be marked in Aberdeen and Orkney

[ACNS source: Scottish Episcopal Church] Seabury Day will be marked in
the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney with special services in Peterhead on
Friday 14 November, the 219th anniversary of the consecration of Samuel
Seabury as the first Bishop in the United States.

The Dean of Aberdeen, the Very Reverend Gerald Stranraer-Mull, who is
also priest in Peterhead, Ellon and Cruden Bay, explained, "The
consecration of Bishop Seabury in Aberdeen by three Scottish Bishops was
the beginning of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The chief
consecrating Bishop was the Primus, Bishop Robert Kilgour, and this
year's service, for the first time, honours him. A wreath will be laid
on his grave in the old churchyard, overlooking Peterhead harbour, and
the band of the Salvation Army will lead a procession to Saint Peter's
Church, the successor to the one in which Bishop Kilgour ministered
during his long episcopate. He was born at Cruden Bay nine miles from
Peterhead and even when Bishop of Aberdeen he never lived anywhere but
within these nine miles. At that time Bishops in Scotland were also
parish priests."

The Eucharist in Saint Peter's will be celebrated by the Primus of
Scotland, the Most Reverend Bruce Cameron, who will then launch an
appeal, to run until Easter, for a new house for the priest at Misty
Point, in an expanding community in Aberdeen's companion Diocese of
Saint John's in South Africa.

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