[3] As a deacon he served at St John's Church in Buffalo, New York.

In 1886 he became assistant rector at St George's Church in Manhattan, remaining there until 1890.

Scadding replaced Benjamin Wistar Morris, who had passed that same year.

Morris's old age at the end of his episcopate had led to issues in the diocese.

Scadding found the episcopal residence in disrepair and, 1910, commissioned a new home.