Evan Malbone Johnson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEvan Malbone Johnson
American priest
Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1791
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1865
Profession: Anglican priest
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Evan Malbone Johnson
- Evan Malbone Johnson (June 6, 1791 to 1865) was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
- Born in Bristol, Rhode Island, he was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood by Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold.
- He built Saint John's Church at 139 St Johns Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York in 1826, and served that parish for 21 years as its rector without pay.
- Saint John's Church was consecrated on July 10, 1827 by Bishop John Henry Hobart.
- In 1847 Johnson established Saint Michael's Church, also in Brooklyn.
- He served that parish until his death.
- He was a prolific writer in the cautious pre-ritualist High Church school of Anglicanism.
- Johnson baptized William Edmond Armitage, later second Bishop of Wisconsin (1870-1873).
- Johnson was the American editor of the influential A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford.
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