George David Cummins

George David Cummins ( born December 11, 1822 in Smyrna, Delaware, † June 26, 1876 in Lutherville, Maryland ) was an American bishop and founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Life

Cummins graduated in 1841 at Dickinson College. In 1845 he was ordained a deacon and in 1847 he received his ordination. After serving as rector of the Episcopal parishes in Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC and Chicago, he was born on November 15, 1866 as Auxiliary Bishop of the Episcopal Church Kentucky. On November 15, 1866 Cummins was consecrated by John Henry Hopkins and Benjamin Bosworth Smith and Henry Washington Lee Bishop.

As a staunch supporter of the Reformed doctrine, Cummins joined in opposition to the influence of ritualism and the Anglo- Catholic Oxford Movement in the Episcopal Church. On November 10, 1873, he announced his withdrawal from the Episcopal Church known, founded on December 2, 1873, the Reformed Episcopal Church in New York City and inaugurated on December 14, 1873 Charles Edward Cheney for the second bishop of the new church. On 24 June 1874, the Episcopal Church has officially deposed him.

Cummins married on 24 June 1847, and had several children with Alexandrina Macomb.