![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Thomas_Bray_painting.jpg/640px-Thomas_Bray_painting.jpg&w=640&q=50)
Thomas Bray
17th/18th-century English clergyman of colonial America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people named Thomas Bray, see Thomas Bray (disambiguation).
Thomas Bray (1656 or 1658 ā 15 February 1730) was an English clergyman and abolitionist who helped formally establish the Church of England in Maryland, as well as the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Quick Facts Priest, Founder of the SPCK and the SPG, Born ...
Thomas Bray | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Priest, Founder of the SPCK and the SPG | |
Born | 1656 or 1658 Marton, Shropshire |
Died | 15 February 1730 London |
Venerated in | Episcopal Church (USA)[1] Church of England |
Feast | 15 February |
Close