Frederick Bohn Fisher
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Frederick Bohn Fisher (14 February 1882 – 15 April 1938) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920.
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[edit] Birth and Family
Fisher was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. He was of English ancestry, the son of James Edward and Josephine (Shirey) Fisher. He married Edith Jackson 4 February 1903.
[edit] Education
He graduated from Muncie, Indiana High School. He earned both B.S. and A.B. degrees from Asbury College in 1902. He studied at both Boston University and Harvard Divinity School, 1907-08.
[edit] Ordained Ministry and Missionary Service
Rev. Fisher entered the North Indiana Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, serving as Pastor in Kokomo, Indiana (1903). He then went as a Missionary to Agra, India (the North West India Conference), serving 1904-05. He transferred his conference membership to the New England Annual Conference, serving the First M.E. Church in Boston (1907).
Rev. Fisher then became the Eastern Field Secretary for the Board of Foreign Missions of the M.E. Church (1911-12). He was then appointed the General Secretary of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of his denomination (1913-15), then the Associate General Secretary of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in the U.S.A. and Canada (beginning in 1916), transferring his conference membership back to the North Indiana Conference in 1913.
[edit] Episcopal Ministry
Rev. Fisher was elected to the Episcopacy in 1920 and assigned as Resident Bishop of the Calcutta Episcopal Area. In 1930 he returned to the U.S.A. and became Bishop of the Detroit Area, residing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He resigned the Episcopacy in 1930. He died 15 April 1938 in Detroit.
[edit] See also
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