Frederick Graves

{{Short description|American missionary and bishop}}

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{{Portal|Christianity}}

Frederick Rogers Graves (Chinese name: {{lang|zh-hant|郭斐蔚}}; October 23, 1858 – May 17, 1940) was an American missionary to China and was the longest serving bishop in China.{{Cite book|title=Contextualization of Christianity in China : an evaluation in modern perspective|last=Wang|first=Peter Chen-main|date=2007|publisher=Institut Monumenta Serica|others=Wang, Peter Chen-Main|isbn=9783805005470|location=Sankt Augustin|pages=153–181|chapter=Bishop F. R. Graves and China in the 1920s|oclc=213468068}}

Graves succeeded William Jones Boone to serve as the fifth missionary bishop of the Anglican diocese of Shanghai from 1893 to 1937.{{Cite journal|last=Wickeri|first=Philip|date=2017-02-02|editor-last=Strong|editor-first=Rowan|title=Anglicanism in China and East Asia, 1819–1912|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.001.0001/acprof-9780199699704|journal=The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume III|language=en-US|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.001.0001|isbn=9780199699704}} Graves assisted in the organization of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, and served as chairman of its House of Bishops from 1915 to 1926. Due to his position as a bishop, he had heavily involved in the administration of St. John's University, Shanghai. He resigned his See effective October 9, 1937.{{cite web |website=The Episcopal Church Archives |title=PECUSA General Convention 1937 Proceedings |url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/sites/default/files/publications/1937_GC_Journal.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423135819/https://www.episcopalarchives.org/sites/default/files/publications/1937_GC_Journal.pdf |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |access-date=January 7, 2022 }} He was succeeded by William Payne Roberts.

Graves participated in the consecration of a number of other bishops, including

• Daniel Trumbull Huntington
• William Payne Roberts
• James Addison Ingle
• Sidney Catlin Partridge, first Bishop of Kyoto