Henry D. Aves

Right Reverend

Henry Damerel Aves
ChurchThe Episcopal Church
Orders
ConsecrationDecember 14, 1904
Personal details
Born(1853-07-10)July 10, 1853
Huron County, Ohio[1]
DiedSeptember 20, 1936(1936-09-20) (aged 83)
Seabrook, Texas[2]

Henry Damerel Aves (July 10, 1853—September 20, 1936) was a missionary bishop of The Episcopal Church, serving in Mexico from his consecration in 1904.[3] His primary ministry was to English-speaking congregations.[4]

  1. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1915). Herringshaw's American Blue Book of Biography. American Publishers' Association. p. 49. Aves, Henry Damerel, clergyman and bishop of Jalisco, Mexico, was born July 10, 1853, in Huron County, Ohio.
  2. ^ "Aves, Henry Damerel". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. April 30, 2005. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  3. ^ Hawkins, J. Barney (2013). Ian S. Markham; J. Barney Hawkins, IV; Justyn Terry; Leslie Nuñez Steffensen (eds.). The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons. In 1904, more Americans settled in Mexico, and the House of Bishops of the American Episcopal Church sent Henry D. Aves to be the first bishop of the missionary district.
  4. ^ Cruz, Joel Morales (2011). The Mexican Reformation: Catholic Pluralism, Enlightenment Religion, and the Iglesia de Jesus Movement in Benito Juarez's Mexico. Wipf and Stock. ISBN 9781630877125. In 1906, the small remnant of the Church of Jesus that remained was absorbed into the mission of the Episcopal Church under Bishop Aves, whose primary responsibility remained with ministering to the English-speaking residents and foreigners in Mexico.