Jim Kelsey

James Kelsey ( born August 27, 1952 in Baltimore, † June 3, 2007 in Michigan) was Bishop of Northern Michigan Episcopalians of the United States of America.

He attended school in New York City and Burlington ( Vermont). He then studied philosophy at Ithaca College and received his degree there in 1974. His training as a theologian was then carried out at the General Theological Seminary until 1977. Prior to his ordination to the priesthood in 1978 by Bishop Robert S. Kerr, he worked for a dean's office in southwestern Vermont, where he assisted for four communities. As a priest, he was appointed pastor of a church in Swanton, but also served as a " priest- in-charge " for at least three more mission churches. In the coming years the number of municipalities grew in this merger to eight, and Kelsey developed a strong interest in the concept of so-called "cluster ministries ". This concept of parish activities drew national interest because of his success, and the community in Swanton in 1982 awarded as one of the ten most effective parishes of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

1985 Kelsey moved with his family to Oklahoma, where he was a " Canon Missioner " (Evangelist ) of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma for four years served for "cluster ministries ". Focus of his work were eight communities, which extended over six counties in east -central Oklahoma; his services as a consultant for such parochial concepts increasingly found throughout the U.S. and Canada appeal. He was appointed to the Diocese of Northern Michigan, to act there as a " ministry development coordinator " in 1989. He was elected to the episcopate in 1999. Kelsey's principal consecrator at the episcopal ordination was Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold; Co-consecrators were his predecessor as Bishop of Northern Michigan Thomas Kreider Ray, Edward Lewis Lee of Western Michigan, Raymond Stewart Wood of Michigan and Edwin Max Leidel of Eastern Michigan. Kelsey died in 2007 in a car accident.

Kelsey was married in 1976 to Mary, with whom he had three children, all of which have since grown.

• Anglican Bishop ( 20th Century)
• Anglican Bishop ( 21st century)
• Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America
• Americans
• Born in 1952
• Died in 2007
• Man