Henry Winter Syle, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHenry Winter Syle
American episcopal priest
Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1846
Date of Death: 06-Jan-1890
Profession: priest
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Henry Winter Syle
- 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, 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.
- He established a congregation for the deaf in 1888.Rev.
- Syle struggled with poor health his whole life.
- He died of pneumonia on Jan.
- 6, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He is commemorated along with his teacher, Thomas Gallaudet on August 27 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
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