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g.SWEDES IN U.S.A. BISHOP WHITEHOUSE. 403
Ansgarius Church in this city. Unonius had resigned his
cure in 1857, and left this country in 1858, and placed his
work for the time in the hands of the Rev. Henry Benjamin
Whipple, then rector of a parish in this city, afterwards the
beloved and famous Bishop of Minnesota, whose friend
ship with myself is a delightful recollection of past years.
He thus writes of this period:
"
One of the three services
which I held every Sunday was for the Swedish congrega
tion. In my work for them I became deeply attached to the
Scandinavian race for their love of home, their devotion to
freedom, and their loyalty to Government and God." Thus
he was prepared for his after-work in this field in his own
diocese.29
I do not know the year in which Mr. Bredberg actually
began his work, but it was probably in 1860. Bishop
Whitehouse thus spoke of him in his address to the
Convention of 1861 :
"
Among our clergy entitled to seats in this Convention is the
Rev. Jacob Bredberg, an ordained minister of the Church of
Sweden, whom I have recently received on his letters of orders
and other papers from the Bishop of Skara. 30
In this I have,
of course, formally recognized the validity of the episcopate in
that venerable Church :
guided in this act by the best-informed
judgment of the English Church and that of my brethren in the
episcopate here, whose opinion was favourably, though in
formally, expressed in answer to my own request for it during
the last session of the House of Bishops in Richmond. This
referred to the giving of Letters Dimissory to the Swedish
bishops as well as the reception of ministers from there as
regularly ordained. Mr. Bredberg succeeds the Rev. Mr.
Unonius in ministering to the Swedes connected with the Church
of St. Ansgarius, Chicago, and there is a prospect that through
him I
may be able to extend the use of our services into some
Swedish settlements accessible by railroad."
29
Lights and Shadows of a long Episcopate, p. 434, Mac-
millan and Co., 1902.
30 Mr. Bredberg s name appears en the List of Clergy on p. 3 of the
Journal containing the Bishop s address. On his case see Bishop G. Mott
Williams, The Ch. of Sw. and the Anglican Communion, p. 103 foil. He writes :
"Other Swedish clergy have officiated under license without seeking or
obtaining membership in the Convention. The most notable case is that of
Professor Mellin of the General Theological Seminary."
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