File:AsburyOrdination.jpg

Summary
Famous picture of Francis Asbury's consecration as the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This images is from an original copy of this engraving by A. Gilchrist Campbell after a painting by Thomas Coke Ruckle and published by T. C. Ruckle in New York, 1882. Asbury became bishop at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784.