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Frederick Joseph Kinsman (September 27, 1868, Warren, Ohio - June 18, 1944, Lewiston, Maine) was an American Roman Catholic church historian who had formerly been a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. From 1908 to 1919 he was Episcopal Bishop of Delaware. ==Life== Kinsman was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Keble College, Oxford.〔("Dr. Kinsman to be Bishop" ), ''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 * Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut * Professor of Ecclesiastical History, General Theological Seminary 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.〔("Kinsman Made Bishop" ), ''The New York Times'' (June 4, 1908).〕 He was consecrated by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle assisted by Ozi W. Whitaker and William Woodruff Niles. Kinsman was Episcopal Visitor of the Society of the Atonement, 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 in New York City.〔(''The Episcopal and Greek Churches: Report of an Unofficial Conference on Unity Between Members of the Episcopal Church in America and His Grace, Meletios Metaxakis, Metropolitan of Athens, and His Advisers, October 26, 1918'' ). New York: Department of Missions, 1920.〕 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. Kinsman lived the last eleven years of his life at the Marcotte Nursing Home in Lewiston, Maine, and died there in 1944.〔Edwin A. Dugan, "Frederick Joseph Kinsman", ''Catholic World'' 159 (September 1944): 522.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Joseph Kinsman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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