Henry Winter Syle

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Henry Winter Syle
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BornNovember 9, 1846
Shanghai, China
DiedJanuary 6, 1890
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venerated inAnglican Communion
FeastAugust 27

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.[1][2]

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,[3] and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Syle was encouraged to become a priest by Gallaudet. Ordained on October 14, 1883, he became the first deaf clergyman in the United States.[1] He established a congregation for the deaf in 1888.[2]

Syle struggled with poor health his whole life. He died of pneumonia on Jan. 6, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4][2]

He is commemorated along with his teacher, Thomas Gallaudet on August 27 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.[5]

He died on January 6, 1890, and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[6]

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