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Edward Clark Turner (March 26, 1915June 21, 1997) was a bishop of the
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between 1959 and 1981.


Early life and education

Turner was born on March 26, 1915, in
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,
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to Edward Turner and Eva Helen Clark. He came to the
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in 1922. He was then educated at the high school in
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, and then studied at
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from where he graduated with a
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in 1937. He also studied at
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and earned a Bachelor of Divinity in 1940 and an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1954. On November 19, 1938, he married Virginia Hunter and together had four children.


Ordained ministry

Turner was ordained deacon on March 16, 1940, by Bishop
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of Minnesota and priest on September 19, 1940, by Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane. He was assigned as vicar to the missions of St. John in Okanogan, St. Paul in
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, Trinity in Oroville and Transfiguration in
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, where he served from 1940 until 1944. He then became rector of the Church of the Ascension and Holy Trinity in
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, where he remained until 1956. He simultaneously served as Dean of the Sothern Deanery of Colorado and chaplain and administrator of Parkview Episcopal Hospital.


Bishop

On February 12, 1956, Turner was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Kansas during a diocesan convention held in Grace Cathedral. He was consecrated in the same cathedral on May 22, 1956, by Goodrich R. Fenner of Kansas. He then succeeded as diocesan bishop in 1959 and remained in office until his retirement on May 22, 1981. Turner and his wife retired to Colorado, where he died in 1997.


References

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