Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer Explained

Type:	Bishop
Benjamin Tibbets Kemerer
Church:	The Episcopal Church
Ordination:	June 28, 1903
Consecration:	November 5, 1930
Birth Place:	Vernon Center, Minnesota
Death Date:	September 23, 1960
Death Place:	Friendship, Maine

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

Early life

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. ^[1]

Ordained ministry

Kemerer was ordained deacon on June 28, 1903 in St James' Church, St. Louis^[2] and then to the priesthood on November 17, 1904 in Trinity Church, St. Charles, Missouri.^[3]

Episcopacy

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.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. . In Two Dioceses . The Living Church . 141 . October 9, 1960 . 9 . June 1, 2016.
2. Henry Barker . Ordinations of Priests and Deacons . The Church Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine . New York . Edwin S. Gorham . September 1903 . XXXII . 6 . June 1, 2016.
3. January 23, 1944. Reunited Diocese Elects Bishop Kemerer Suffragan. . 108. 7.
4. 'Bishop Kemerer Dies Services in Mills City,' Austin Daily Herald, September 24, 1960, pg. 6
5. 1904. Reunited Diocese Elects Bishop Kemerer Suffragan. The Church Eclectic . 34–35. 367.