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Philip Ludwell III is the first known convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the Americas. He was a prominent figure in pre-revolutionary Virginia and a relative by blood or marriage of many great early figures in American history from George Washington to Robert E. Lee.
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Philip Cottington Ludwell (c. 1638 – c. 1723) was an English-born planter and politician in colonial Virginia who sat on the Virginia Governor's Council, the first of three generations of men with the same name to do so, and briefly served as speaker of the House of Burgesses.
Philip Cottington Ludwell III (December 28, 1716 – March 25, 1767) was a Virginia planter, soldier and politician who twice represented Jamestown in the House of Burgesses, and like his father and grandfather of the same name also served on the Virginia Governor's Council.
Philip Ludwell III is the first known convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the Americas. He was a prominent figure in pre-revolutionary Virginia and a relative by blood or marriage of many great early figures in American history from George Washington to Richard Henry Lee of the great Lee family of Virginia.
6 de ene. de 2024 · Philip Ludwell was the first Orthodox convert in America. Ludwell’s quest inspried him to travel to London, England—and during that fateful summer he encountered a tiny community of Orthodox Christians who changed the course of his life forever.
The Associates of Colonel Philip Ludwell III pattern their name after the earlier Associates of Dr. Bray as they undertake the work of educating a broader audience as to the unique worldview and life of a Founding Father of the Greek Church in North America.
Philip Ludwell III was — as far as we know — the first Orthodox convert in North America. Born in Surrey, Virginia, in 1716, he was the grandson of the first royal Governor of Carolina and the son of an influential Virginia Burgess.
