Frederick Joseph Kinsman (September 27, 1868,
Warren, Ohio
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- June 18, 1944,
Lewiston, Maine
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) was an American
Roman Catholic
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church historian who had formerly been a
bishop
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of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
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. From 1908 to 1919 he was
Episcopal Bishop of Delaware.
Life
Kinsman was educated at
St. Paul's School,
Concord
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New Hampshire
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, and at
Keble College
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,
Oxford
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.
["Dr. Kinsman to be Bishop"](_blank)
''The New York Times'' (June 3, 1908). He served in the following positions:
* Master of St. Paul's School
* Rector of St. Martin's Church,
New Bedford, Massachusetts
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* Professor of Ecclesiastical History,
Berkeley Divinity School
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,
Middletown, Connecticut
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* Professor of Ecclesiastical History,
General Theological Seminary
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He was ordained deacon in
Trinity Church of
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by the Bishop of New Hampshire
William Woodruff Niles
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on March 10, 1895, and then ordained priest on July 1, 1896, while serving as master at St Paul's School in
Concord, New Hampshire
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. On June 3, 1908, Kinsman was elected third Episcopal Bishop of Delaware. He received the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot in both the clergy and lay conventions. He was consecrated by
Daniel Sylvester Tuttle
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Early and family lif ...
assisted by Ozi W. Whitaker and
William Woodruff Niles
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.
Kinsman was Episcopal Visitor of the
Society of the Atonement
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, an Episcopalian religious community which later became Roman Catholic. In 1918 he was one of the Protestant Episcopalian delegates at an ecumenical meeting with representatives of the
Greek Orthodox Church
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in New York City.
On May 14, 1919, Kinsman announced his intention to resign as Episcopal Bishop of Delaware the following October.
"Kinsman Resigns as Delaware Bishop"
''The New York Times'' (May 15, 1919). He subsequently became a Roman Catholic. He was appointed professor of modern church history at The Catholic University of America
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.
Kinsman lived the last eleven years of his life at the Marcotte Nursing Home in Lewiston, Maine
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, and died there in 1944.[Edwin A. Dugan, "Frederick Joseph Kinsman", ''Catholic World'' 159 (September 1944): 522.]
Works
Kinsman was the author of numerous works including:
''Principles of Anglicanism''
(New York: Longmans, Green, 1910)
''Catholic and Protestant''
(New York: Longmans, Green, 1913)
* ''Prayers for the Dead'' (Milwaukee: Young Churchman, 1915)
* ''Issues before the Church'' (New York: Edwin S. Gorham, 1915)
* ''Outlines of the History of the Church'' (Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1916)
''Salve Mater''
(New York: Longmans, Green, 1920)
* ''Trent: Four Lectures on Practical Aspects of the Council of Trent'' (New York: Longmans, Green, 1921)
''Americanism and Catholicism''
(New York: Longmans, Green, 1924)
* "St Cyprian", ''Sign Magazine'' 5 (January 1926).
''The Failure of Anglicanism''
(London: Catholic Truth Society, 1929)
* ''Reveries of A Hermit'' (New York: Longmans, Green, 1936)
* Book review of ''Autobiography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton'', ''Catholic Historical Review'' 23 (April 1937): 94–96.
Notes
Further reading
*Dugan, Edwin A. "Frederick Joseph Kinsman". ''Catholic World'' 159 (September 1944): 522–29.
* Lewis, Leicester C. " eview of''Salve Mater''". ''Anglican Theological Review'' 3 (May 1920): 78–83.
* Riccio, Barry D. "American Catholic Thought in the Nineteen Twenties: Frederick Joseph Kinsman and George Shuster". In ''American Church: Essays on the Americanization of the Catholic Church'', edited by David J. Alvarez. Moraga, CA: Saint Mary's College of California, 1979, 113–23.
External links
Documents by Kinsman
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Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
20th-century American Roman Catholic theologians
American Episcopal priests
Anglican bishop converts to Roman Catholicism
Catholic University of America faculty
1868 births
1944 deaths
American Episcopal theologians
20th-century American non-fiction writers
General Theological Seminary faculty
Episcopal bishops of Delaware