Donald MacAdie

{{Short description|American bishop}}

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| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = Donald MacAdie

| honorific-suffix = D.D., S.T.D.

| title = Suffragan Bishop of Newark

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| church = Episcopal Church

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| diocese = Newark

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| elected = April 29, 1958

| term = 1958–1963

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| predecessor = Theodore R. Ludlow{{cite web|url=https://dioceseofnewark.org/bishop-office/previous-bishops-newark |title=Previous Bishops of Newark|publisher=The Episcopal Diocese of Newark}}

| successor = George Rath{{cite news |author= |title=Suffragan Bishop is Consecrated|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/07/archives/suffragan-bishop-is-consecrated.html|newspaper=The New York Times|location=New York, New York|date=March 7, 1964|access-date=September 10, 2018}}

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| ordination = March 1925

| ordained_by = Edwin Stevens Lines

| consecration = October 22, 1958{{cite magazine|date=November 2, 1958|volume=137|number=18|magazine=This Living Church|title=New Suffragan for Newark|page=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coHkAAAAMAAJ&q=The+Living+Church+Volume+137+Number+18&pg=RA6-PA15}}

| consecrated_by = Benjamin M. Washburn
Co-Conscrators - Arthur C. Lichtenberger and Leland Stark

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|05}}

| birth_place = Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|08|01|1899|12|05}}

| death_place = Passaic, New Jersey, United States

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| nationality = American

| religion = Anglican

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| parents = John MacAdie & Ella Jordan

| spouse = Ruth A. Comer (m. 1922, d. 1951)
Helen L. Myer (m. 1953)

| children = 1 (John)

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| alma_mater = Kenyon College
General Theological Seminary

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Donald MacAdie (December 5, 1899 – August 1, 1963) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, serving from 1958 to 1963.{{cite magazine|date=August 11, 1963|volume=147|number=6|magazine=This Living Church|title=Bishop MacAdie Dies|page=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4fkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA44}}

==Biography==

MacAdie was born in Bayonne, NJ in 1899 and his mother's name was Ella.{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BRV-35H?cc=1968530&wc=9FHX-16D%3A928311801%2C928362601 |title=United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration}} He attended Kenyon College where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. While at Kenyon he was drafted into the Student Army Training Corps during World War I{{cite magazine|date=Summer 1963|volume=50|number=2|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Adytum on High|page=88|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1963/SP_EMERALD_VOL_50_NO_2_SUMMER_1963.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806153002/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1963/SP_EMERALD_VOL_50_NO_2_SUMMER_1963.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 6, 2016}} and attended Officers Training School at Camp Grant, IL.{{cite magazine|date=January 1919|volume=5|number=4|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Service List - Lambda|pages=190|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1919/SP_EMERALD_VOL_5_NO_4_JAN_1919.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002193537/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1919/SP_EMERALD_VOL_5_NO_4_JAN_1919.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 2, 2016}} After being discharged at the end of the war, he graduated from Kenyon in 1922 then attended Bexley Hall before transferring to General Theological Seminary where he graduated in 1924. He would later attain a Doctorate of Sacred Theology (STD) from General Theological Seminary in 1958.

He was ordained in 1925. Before his ordination, he was involved in youth work at St. Thomas' Church in New York City. His first assignment was as rector of St. Mary's Church in Haledon, New Jersey, where he stayed until 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he was the executive secretary of the diocese's social service and field department. From 1931 to 1958 he was the rector of St. John's Church in Passaic, New Jersey.

In 1958 he was named Suffragan Bishop of Newark and received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Kenyon.{{cite magazine|date=Fall 1958|volume=45|number=3|magazine=The Emerald of Sigma Pi|title=Lambda Chapter - Kenyon College|pages=167–168|url=http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1958/SP_EMERALD_VOL_45_NO_3_FALL_1958.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610233747/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/1958/SP_EMERALD_VOL_45_NO_3_FALL_1958.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 10, 2016}}{{cite news |author= |title=Degrees To Be Given At Inauguration|url=https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3120&context=collegianl|newspaper=The Kenyon Collegian|location=Gambier, Ohio|date=September 19, 1958|access-date=September 10, 2018}} He was presented to his consecration by Bishops Frederick J. Warnecke and James P. deWolfe. His duties included oversight of the churches in Bergen, Passaic, Warren, and Sussex counties. He also was in charge of the diocese's promotion, education, youth, urban work, social work, and laymen's work organizations.{{cite magazine|date=December 28, 1958|volume=137|number=26|magazine=This Living Church|title=Bishop MacAdie's Duties|pages=4–5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coHkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA166}}

During his life, he was married twice, first to Ruth Comer MacAdie (with whom he had a son, John){{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRZV-W5K?cc=1810731&wc=QZFW-NSX%3A649613901%2C648859101%2C649484501%2C1589285537 |title=United States Census, 1930|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration}} and then Helen Myer MacAdie.

He died in Passaic, New Jersey, at the Passaic General Hospital, of an intestinal lesion and a heart ailment.