David B. Joslin
{{Short description|Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = David Bruce Joslin
| honorific_suffix = D.D.
| title = Bishop of Central New York
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| elected = June 8, 1991
| term = 1992–2000
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| predecessor = O'Kelley Whitaker
| successor = Gladstone B. Adams III
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| other_post = Assisting Bishop of New Jersey (2000–2003)
| ordination = 1965
| ordained_by = Alfred L. Banyard
| consecration = November 1991
| consecrated_by = Edmond L. Browning
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| birth_place = Collingswood, New Jersey, United States
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| nationality = American
| religion = Anglican (prev. Methodist)
| spouse = Kathrine E. Brockett (m. June 15, 1958)
Missy Bennett (m. 2017)
| parents = Sheppard Joslin and Elizabeth Andrews
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| children = 2
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| previous_post = Coadjutor Bishop of Central New York (1991-1992)
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David Bruce Joslin (born January 8, 1936) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1992 to 2000.
Biography
Joslin was born in Collingswood, New Jersey, son of a Methodist minister and his wife, and raised in Linwood, New Jersey.{{cite web|url=http://www.christchurchwesterly.org/the-right-reverend-david-joslin|title=The Right Reverend David Joslin: Rector Emeritus, Bishop in residence|work=Christ Church, Westerly, Rhode Island|author=|date=n.d.|accessdate=July 30, 2019|archive-date=July 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730203015/http://www.christchurchwesterly.org/the-right-reverend-david-joslin|url-status=dead}}[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/491123939/ "Montvale Church Ordains Priest"], The Record, August 9, 1965. Accessed December 1, 2020. "The Rev. David B. Joslin was ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church in services yesterday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.... Born in Collingswood, he lived most of his youth in Linwood, a suburb of Atlantic City, and now resides with his wife and son at 11 Marion Road." He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Drew University in 1958 and then a Master of Divinity from the same university in 1961. He became an Associate in Anglican Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School in 1963, after joining the Episcopal Church. In 1965, Joslin was ordained a transitional deacon and, later that year, a priest in the Episcopal Church.
Joslin served as associate rector of St Paul's Church in Montvale, New Jersey from 1965 to 1967, after becoming rector of St David's Church in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1974, he became rector of Christ Church in Westerly, Rhode Island, and in 1987, rector of the Church of St Stephen the Martyr in Edina, Minnesota, where he remained until 1991.Photo directory archives of St. Stephen's Church, Edina, MN{{cite news|work=Episcopal News Service|url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=91183Z|date=September 17, 1991|title=People|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}
In 1980, he published a book about the episcopacy.{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Apostle-our-midst-office-bishop/dp/B0006XM89C|title=Apostle in our midst: The office of bishop|year=1980|first=David B.|last=Joslin|publisher=Forward Movement |asin= B0006XM89C}}
On June 8, 1991, at the age of 55, he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Central New York at their annual convention.{{cite news|last=Burns|first=M.C.|title=Episcopalians install The Rev. David Joslin as bishop coadjutor|work=Syracuse Herald Journal|date=November 10, 1991|page=C3}} He succeeded the Rt. Rev. O'Kelley Whitaker, who was set to retire at the beginning of 1992. He was elected on the third ballot. His consecration would happen in November 1991 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Syracuse.
At the time he was bishop, the Diocese of Central New York comprised "an 1,800-square-mile area [with] 40,000 members in its 106 parishes. He served as bishop from 1992 to 1999.{{cite web|url=https://cnyepiscopal.org/about/past-bishops/|title=BISHOPS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK|work=Diocese of Central New York|date=July 2019|accessdate=July 30, 2010}}
Almost immediately upon his consecration, Joslin had to accept the resignation of a high-ranking priest after a sex scandal in October 1992, which made national news; the priest, married to a woman, had engaged in affairs with young men.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-07-9203310883-story.html|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 7, 1992|title=TOP U.S. EPISCOPAL PRIEST QUITS AMID SEX SCANDAL|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}
In 2000, he was appointed "Provisional Bishop" by Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold "to assist dioceses in transition from one bishop to another .... in the Dioceses of New Jersey and Long Island." In New Jersey, he assisted with confirmations.{{cite news|url=http://www.goleader.com/02may09/7.pdf|work=G.O. Leader|title=Rev. David B. Joslin to Visit St. Paul's For Confirmation |date=May 9, 2002|accessdate=August 1, 2019}} He led in the Diocese of Long Island in between when Bishop Orris Walker Jr. left and Lawrence Provenzano took over, between June and November 2009.{{cite news|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/li-s-new-episcopal-bishop-faces-strong-challenges-1.1559997|work=Newsday|title=LI's new Episcopal bishop faces strong challenges|last=Jones|first=Bart|date=November 1, 2009|accessdate=July 30, 2019}} As an "assisting bishop", Joslin was a consecrator of Provenzano in 2009.{{cite news|work=The Dominion|date=September 1, 2009|title=The Already and The Not Yet|first=Larry|last=Provenzano|url=http://030acef.netsolhost.com/DOM156.pdf|accessdate=August 1, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801133214/http://030acef.netsolhost.com/DOM156.pdf|url-status=dead}}
In 2004, Joslin retired and returned to Westerly, to serve as an Assisting Bishop, and later, Bishop-in-residence. In 2012, he served as interim dean of the Cathedral of Saint John, during a period when it had to suspend services due to lack of operating funds.{{cite news|url=https://livingchurch.org/2012/03/12/challenge-awaits-new-bishop/|work=The Living Church|title=Challenge Awaits New Bishop|date=March 12, 2012|accessdate=July 30, 2019}} When that cathedral held its last religious services in April 2012,{{cite news|url=https://www.episcopalcafe.com/providence_cathedral_holds_final_service/|work=Episcopal Cafe|title=Providence cathedral holds final service |date=April 25, 2012|accessdate=August 1, 2019}} Joslin was quoted as saying, "We tried to make it upbeat, with the music and so forth. And it was during the Easter season."{{cite news|url=http://rhodybeat.com/stories/behind-the-stained-glass,22356?|work=East Side Monthly Magazine|title=Behind the Stained Glass: What's next for the East Side Episcopalian churches?|first=Will|last=Hart|date=June 13, 2012|accessdate=August 1, 2019}} He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Berkeley Divinity School in 2017.
Personal life
References
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- Episcopal Clerical Directory 2015
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