October 28
1266: Passing away of Arsenije I Sremac, the second archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church after St. Sava. He was a pupil of St. Sava, and also built the monastery at Pec.
1636: Foundation the Harvard College (a name which it got later) by vote of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay with the primary purpose of preparing ministers and religious educators.
1646: John Eliot, colonial missionary who is also known as the “Apostle to the New England Indians,” conducts the first Protestant worship service for the Indians of North America at Nonantum, Mass., and delivers a sermon in their native tongue for the first time.
1820: Birth of John H. Hopkins, who later influenced the hymnody of the Episcopal church during the mid-19th century very strongly and who is known for the Christmas hymn, “We Three Kings of Orient Are.”
1892: Edith Warner arrives at Lagos, Nigeria, where she served as a missionary for decades, often venturing into new and unknown places.
1926: Six indigenous Chinese priests are consecrated as bishops in St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome by Pope Pius XI, following the policy of making the Chinese church more nationalistic.
1958: Election of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, as the Popewho took the name John XXIII. He convened the Second Vatican Council in 1962.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org