David Nitschmann der Bischof
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Life
In 1735 in Berlin, he was consecrated the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, Moravians by Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Grandson of John Amos Comenius, the last Bishop of the Ancient Unitas Fratrum.
He landed at Philadelphia, in 1741 and was instrumental in the founding of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1772.
Nitschmann traveled with John Wesley and helped to found the mission at Bethlehem.