Edmund Alexander de Schweinitz (1825-1887) was an American

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 bishop

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 of the Moravian Church. He was born at Bethlehem

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, Pennsylvania

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, and studied theology

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 at the Moravian Seminary

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 there and at Berlin

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. He entered the ministry in 1850 and after some years of pastoral life, became in 1870 Bishop of the Moravian church. He founded the Moravian, the weekly journal of his church, in 1856 and for 10 years was its editor. He was the author of:

• The Moravian Manual (1859)
• The Moravian Episcopate (1865)
• The Life and Times of David Zeisberger
  David Zeisberger
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  (1870)
• Some of the Fathers of the Moravian Church (1881)
• The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum; or, The Unity of the Brethren, Founded by the Followers of John Hus
  Jan Hus
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  (1885)

Consult his Memoir (Bethlehem, 1888).