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GRISWOLD

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Caryl Florio Incipit: 17156 65352 15453 Used With Text: Holy Father, Great Creator

Holy Father, Great Creator

Author: Bp. A. V. Griswold Appears in 63 hymnals Topics: Worship Beginning of Used With Tune: GRISWOLD

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Holy Father, Great Creator

Author: Bp. A. V. Griswold Hymnal: The Friends' Hymnal, a Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Public Worship of the Society #a6 (1908) Languages: English Tune Title: GRISWOLD

Holy Father, Great Creator

Author: Bp. A. V. Griswold Hymnal: Gloria Deo #6 (1901) Topics: Worship Beginning of Languages: English Tune Title: GRISWOLD

Caryl Florio

1843 - 1920 Composer of "GRISWOLD" in Gloria Deo Real name William James Robjohn. He used Caryl Florio as a pseudonym.

1766 - 1843 Person Name: Bp. A. V. Griswold Author of "Holy Father, Great Creator" in Gloria Deo Griswold, Alexander Viets, D.D., born at Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1766. After being for some time rector at Bristol, Rhode Island, he was consecrated bishop of the "Eastern Diocese," in 1811. He was subsequently Bishop of Massachusetts. He died in 1843, and his memoirs were published by Dr. J. S. Stone. His well-known hymn:— Holy Father, great Creator. Holy Trinity. Was written probably in 1835. It appeared in that year in his Family Prayers, in 4 st. of 6 1. and entitled "Hymn to the God of Christians." With some alterations by Bishop Coxe, it was given in Hymns for Church and Home, &c, Phila., 1860, No. 153. It was repeated in the Hymnal .... of the Protestant Episcopal Church , 1871, No. 145.[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)