|
Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr. (1923 – March 14, 2013) was a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He served the Diocese of Michigan as bishop coadjutor from 1971 to 1973 and as diocesan bishop from 1973 to 1990.〔〔 McGehee was also former deputy attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia.〔 ==Early life and ministry== McGehee was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1923. He served during World War II as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After completing his military service, he graduated from Virginia Tech in 1947. He then earned a law degree at the University of Richmond in 1949. During his time practicing law, he served as deputy attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. McGehee later entered the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, graduating in 1957.〔 Prior to coming to Michigan, he was rector of Immanuel-on-the-Hill Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1960 to 1971, where he was the pastor to President Gerald R. Ford and Betty Ford.〔 McGehee was elected bishop in May 1971, beginning his service in October of that year. Then 48, he succeeded the Rt. Rev. Richard S. M. Emrich, who had led the Michigan diocese since 1948.〔 In 1988, he approached the National Convention of the Episcopal Church in Detroit with a plan for an economic justice ministry. With their help, the Bishop H. Coleman McGehee Economic Justice Fund was established in 1988, and transitioned into the Opportunity Resource Fund in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Opportunity Resource Fund - History )〕 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「H. Coleman McGehee, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|