Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer

Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer
Church The Episcopal Church
Orders
Ordination June 28, 1903[1]
Consecration November 5, 1930
Personal details
Born Vernon Center, Minnesota[2]
Died September 23, 1960
Friendship, Maine[2]


Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer (December 9, 1874 September 23, 1960) was an American Epicopalian bishop.

Born in Vernon Center, Minnesota, Kemerer was a salesman and advertising manager. He went to Hamline University from 1890 to 1894 and then received his doctorate in theology in 1931 from Seabury Theological Seminary. In 1904, Kemerer was ordained to the priesthood and then served in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1930 to 1933, Kemerer served as coadjutor bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Duluth. He then served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese from 1933 until 1944 when the diocese was reunited with the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. He then served as suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Minnesota from 1944 until his retirement in 1948. Kemerer died in New Haven, Connecticut.[3][4]

Notes

  1. Henry Barker, ed. (September 1903). "Ordinations of Priests and Deacons". The Church Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine. New York: Edwin S. Gorham. XXXII (6). Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "In Two Dioceses". The Living Church. 141: 9. October 9, 1960. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  3. Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer
  4. 'Bishop Kemerer Dies Services in Mills City,' Austin Daily Herald, September 24, 1960, pg. 6
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