Ordained Ministry
Bishop Peck was converted to the christian faith at the age of sixteen. He sensed a call to preach almost immediately. He entered the Traveling Ministry as a circuit rider of the Oneida Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1832. He was ordained by Bishops Elijah Hedding and Beverly Waugh. Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Peck served as a pastor and a presiding elder. As a Bishop, he was a delegate to the First Ecumenical Conference, 1881.
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