John Barrett Kerfoot (March 1, 1816—July 10, 1881) was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and a president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
He died in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania and is buried in Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
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“The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)
“We all have known
Good critics, who have stamped out poet’s hopes;
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state;
Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause;
Good kings, who disembowelled for a tax;
Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy;
Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs;
And damned the general world for standing up.—
Now, may the good God pardon all good men!”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)