George David Cummins

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George David Cummins (1822-76) was an American clergyman. He was born in Delaware, graduated from Dickinson College in 1841, and entered the Methodist ministry. In 1845 he took orders in the Episcopal church and was rector of several Episcopal churches in Virginia, Washington, and Chicago. He was chosen Assistant Bishop of Kentucky in 1866, but in 1873 resigned, after being criticized for taking communion with ministers outside the Protestant Episcopal church, and founded the Reformed Episcopal church, of which he was the first bishop.

[edit] Publications

• Mrs. Cummins (his wife), Memoir (New York, 1878)

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.