Henry Yates Satterlee

The Right Reverend Henry Yates Satterlee
Bishop of Washington, D.C.
Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee
Province	Province 3
Diocese	Episcopal Bishop of Washington
Predecessor	None
Successor	Alfred Harding
Orders
Ordination	1866 as priest
Consecration	1896 as bishop
Personal details
Born	January 11, 1843 New York City
Died	February 22, 1908 Washington, D.C.
Buried	Bethlehem Chapel of Washington National Cathedral
Spouse	Jane Lawrence Churchill
Alma mater	Columbia University General Theological Seminary

Henry Yates Satterlee (1843–1908) was the first Episcopal Bishop of Washington, serving from 1896 to 1908. He established the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, popularly known as Washington National Cathedral.

He was born on January 11, 1843 at the corner of Greenwich and Carlyle Streets, New York City the son of Edward Satterlee and Jane Anna Yates, the daughter Henry Christopher Yates, an attorney-at-law; and for a number of years a New York State Senator and member of the Council of Appointment and Catharine, daughter of Johannes Mynderse and a grand niece of Joseph Christopher Yates, who was an American lawyer, politician. statesman, and founding trustee of Union College. He was also a descendant of Jellis Douwese Fonda, who emigrated in 1642 to the Dutch colony of New Netherland (New York).

His uncle was Charles Yates, a Brigadier-General during the American Civil War. Charles' daughter, Stella Yates (November 23, 1866 - February 2, 1929), married on June 10, 1891, in New York City, Benjamin Brewster, the son of the Rev. Joseph Brewster and Sarah Jane Bunce. He was the Episcopal Bishop of Maine and Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado.

He graduated from Columbia University in 1863, and in 1866 graduated from the General Theological Seminary, New York City.