Frederick Joseph Kinsman


Frederick Joseph Kinsman was an American Roman Catholic church historian who had formerly been a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. From 1908 to 1919 he was Episcopal Bishop of Delaware.

Life

Kinsman was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Keble College, Oxford. He served in the following positions:
He was ordained deacon in Trinity Church of Paris by the Bishop of New Hampshire William Woodruff Niles on March 10, 1895, and then ordained priest on July 1, 1896, while serving as master at St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. On June 3, 1908, Kinsman was elected third Episcopal Bishop of Delaware. He received the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot in both the clergy and lay conventions. He was consecrated by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle assisted by Ozi W. Whitaker and William Woodruff Niles.
Kinsman was Episcopal Visitor of the Society of the Atonement, an Episcopalian religious community which later became Roman Catholic. In 1918 he was one of the Protestant Episcopalian delegates at an ecumenical meeting with representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church in New York City.
On May 14, 1919, Kinsman announced his intention to resign as Episcopal Bishop of Delaware the following October. He subsequently became a Roman Catholic. He was appointed professor of modern church history at The Catholic University of America.
Kinsman lived the last eleven years of his life at the Marcotte Nursing Home in Lewiston, Maine, and died there in 1944.

Works

Kinsman was the author of numerous works including: Prayers for the Dead Issues before the Church Outlines of the History of the Church Trent: Four Lectures on Practical Aspects of the Council of Trent