King's Chapel and James Freeman, part 2 The Anglican/Episcopalian congregation, Kingβs Chapel, in Boston, faced a clergy shortage after American independence, so, in 1782, they called congregationalist James Freeman, then 23 years old and fresh out of Harvard. Under Freemanβs influence the congregation revised their Book of Common Prayer to delete references to the Trinity. When the congregation sought to have Freeman ordained, however, the Anglican bishops refused. Kingβs Chapel chose to take a page from the polity of their neighboring congregationalist churches, and, in 1787, ordained James Freeman themselves β a power which, under congregational polity, is in the hands of congregations, not of bishops or church hierarchy. King...