John McKim

The Rt Revd
John McKim
Province Anglican Church in Japan
Orders
Consecration by Abram Newkirk Littlejohn
Personal details
Born (1852-07-17)July 17, 1852
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Died 4 April 1936(1936-04-04) (aged 83)
Honolulu, Hawaii

Rt. Revd. John McKim D.D. (July 17, 1852 - April 4, 1936) was Anglican Bishop of North Tokyo and Chancellor of Rikkyo University.[1]

Following education at Griswold College and Nashotah House Theological Seminary, he was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood. He began missionary work in Japan in 1880 as the Chaplain to St. Agnes School in Kyoto. McKim was appointed successor to Bishop Channing Moore Williams and consecrated Bishop of North Tokyo on June 14, 1893 at St. Thomas Church, New York.[2]

Bishop McKim, together with the Bishop of South Tokyo, Edward Bickersteth participated in the Fourth Lambeth Conference at Canterbury in 1897.

Bishop McKim oversaw the consecration of the first two Japanese Anglican bishops in 1923, and led fund-raising efforts for the rebuilding of church properties in the wake of the Great Kantō earthquake.

Bishop McKim retired to Honolulu in November, 1935.

Bishop McKim married twice: first to Ellen Augusta Cole on September 16, 1879, who died on October 17, 1915; and second to Elizabeth Baird on May 4, 1924.

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References

  1. ↑ Hemphill, Elizabeth (1969). The Road to KEEP (First ed.). New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc. p. 15.
  2. ↑ "Bishops of China and Japan" (PDF). New York Times Archive. New York Times. June 11, 1893. Retrieved 1 May 2014.


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