William Ingraham Kip

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William Ingraham Kip (1811-1893) was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop. He was born in New York City, of Breton ancestry, graduated at Yale in 1831 and at the General Theological Seminary in 1835, was rector of St. Peter's, Albany, from 1838 to 1853, and in the latter year was chosen Missionary Bishop of California. He became Bishop four years later. Among his works are:

• The Lenten Fast (1843)
• Early Jesuit Missions in North America (1846)
• The Catacombs of Rome (1854)
• The Olden Time in New York (1872)
• The Church and the Apostles (1877)
• Double Witness of the Church (twenty-second edition, 1904)

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• Documents by Kip on Project Canterbury
• William Ingraham Kip at Find A Grave