Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, an American bishop, born in Montgomery co., N. Y., Dec. 13, 1824. He graduated at Union college in 1815, and was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, March 18, 1848. He spent the first two years of his ministry in Amsterdam, N. Y., and Meriden, Conn.; was ordained priest Sept. 20, 1849, and became rector of Christ's church, Springfield, Mass., in February, 1850. In June of the following year he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's church, New Haven, Conn.; was elected president of Hobart college, Geneva, N. Y., in 1858, but declined; and in the spring of 1860 became rector of the church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, N. Y. Long Island having been made a separate diocese in 1868, Dr. Littlejohn was chosen its first bishop, and was consecrated Jan. 27, 1869. He had also in November, 1868, been elected bishop of Central New York, but declined. During a period of seven years (1853-'60) he was lecturer on pastoral theology in the Berkeley divinity school, Middle-town, Conn. In July, 1874, he was appointed by the presiding bishop to take charge of the American Episcopal churches on the continent of Europe. He has contributed largely to current literature, especially to the "Church Review," since 1853. In the winter of 1854 he delivered the first of a series of lectures on the " Evidences of Christianity," projected by Bishop Potter of Pennsylvania, taking for his subject "The Philosophy of Religion." He has published a number of charges, addresses, occasional sermons, etc.; and has in press (1874) a treatise "On the Causes, the Consequences, and the Remedies of the alleged Decline of the Influence of the Christian Priesthood."