David Bruce Joslin (born January 8, 1936) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1992 to 2000.

Biography

Joslin was born in

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from Drew University in 1958 and then a

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from the same university in 1961. He became an Associate in Anglican Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School in 1963, after joining the Episcopal Church. In 1965, Joslin was ordained a transitional deacon and, later that year, a priest in the Episcopal Church. Joslin served as associate rector of St Paul's Church in Montvale, New Jersey from 1965 to 1967, after becoming rector of St David's Church in

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. In 1974, he became rector of Christ Church in Westerly, Rhode Island, and in 1987, rector of the Church of St Stephen the Martyr in

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, where he remained until 1991. In 1980, he published a book about the episcopacy. On June 8, 1991, at the age of 55, he was elected

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of the Diocese of Central New York at their annual convention. He succeeded the Rt. Rev.

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, who was set to retire at the beginning of 1992. He was elected on the third ballot. His consecration would happen in November 1991 at

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. At the time he was bishop, the Diocese of Central New York comprised "an 1,800-square-mile area

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40,000 members in its 106 parishes. He served as bishop from 1992 to 1999. Almost immediately upon his consecration, Joslin had to accept the resignation of a high-ranking priest after a sex scandal in October 1992, which made national news; the priest, married to a woman, had engaged in affairs with young men. In 2000, he was appointed "Provisional Bishop" by Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold "to assist dioceses in transition from one bishop to another .... in the Dioceses of New Jersey and Long Island." In New Jersey, he assisted with

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s. He led in the Diocese of Long Island in between when Bishop Orris Walker Jr. left and Lawrence Provenzano took over, between June and November 2009. As an "assisting bishop", Joslin was a consecrator of Provenzano in 2009. In 2004, Joslin retired and returned to Westerly, to serve as an Assisting Bishop, and later, Bishop-in-residence. In 2012, he served as interim dean of the Cathedral of Saint John, during a period when it had to suspend services due to lack of operating funds. When that cathedral held its last religious services in April 2012, Joslin was quoted as saying, "We tried to make it upbeat, with the music and so forth. And it was during the Easter season." He was awarded a

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from

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in 2017.

Personal life

Joslin was first married to Kathrine,(''sic.'') who died after a long illness. He married, secondly, in 2017 to Missy Bennett, "whom he had known for many years through her church work."

References

*''Episcopal Clerical Directory'' 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Joslin, David B. 1936 births Living people Converts to Anglicanism from Methodism People from Collingswood, New Jersey People from Linwood, New Jersey Drew University alumni Episcopal Divinity School alumni Episcopal bishops of Central New York