Terence Kelshaw (4 October 1936 – 5 July 2015) was an English-born American
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
bishop.
Kelshaw studied at Oakhill Theology College,
London University, where he graduated with a degree in theology in 1967. He was ordained a deacon in 1967 and a priest in September 1968. He received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1986.
Kelshaw was the seventh bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande from March 1989 to 2004. An Evangelical and theological conservative, he opposed the liberal leanings of the
Episcopal Church in the United States, including its acceptance of non-celibate homosexual clergy.
After retirement, he ministered as a bishop in the
Anglican Church of Uganda
The Church of Uganda is a member province of the Anglican Communion. Currently there are 37 dioceses which make up the Church of Uganda, each headed by a bishop.
Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each headed by a senior priest known a ...
in 2008 and subsequently in the
Anglican Church in North America (a then newly-formed denomination not within the
Anglican Communion) in that church's
Diocese of the Southwest.
Kelshaw died on 5 July 2015, aged 78 years old.
References
External links
"Bishop Kelshaw Dead at 78"from ''
The Living Church''
1936 births
2015 deaths
English Anglicans
Evangelical Anglican bishops
Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America
20th-century Anglican bishops in the United States
21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States
Episcopal bishops of the Rio Grande
Anglican realignment people
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