George D. Gillespie
{{Short description|American Bishop}}
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| name = George De Normandie Gillespie
| honorific_suffix = S.T.D.
| title = Bishop of Western Michigan
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| diocese = Western Michigan
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| elected = December 2, 1874
| term = 1875–1909
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| successor = John N. McCormick
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| ordination = June 30, 1843
| ordained_by = William H. DeLancey
| consecration = February 24, 1875
| consecrated_by = Samuel A. McCoskry
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| birth_place = Goshen, New York, United States
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| death_place = Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
| buried = Ann Arbor, Michigan
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| religion = Anglican
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| parents = John De Normandie Gillespie & Susan Bedford
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| alma_mater = General Theological Seminary
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George De Normandie Gillespie (June 14, 1819 – March 19, 1909) was the first bishop of Western Michigan in The Episcopal Church.
Early life and education
Gillespie was born on June 14, 1819, in Goshen, New York, the son of John De Normandie Gillespie and Susan Bedford.{{cite news |title=Bishop George D. Gillespie|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/03/20/101034591.pdf|author= |date=March 20, 1909 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=9 |access-date=2022-03-28}}{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict04johnuoft/page/n314/mode/1up |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans |volume=IV |editor1-first=Rossiter |editor1-last=Johnson |editor2-first=John Howard |editor2-last=Brown |publisher=American Biographical Society |location=Boston |page= |year=1906 |access-date=2022-03-28 |via=Internet Archive}} He studied at the General Theological Seminary, graduating in theology in 1840. He was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Theology in 1875 from Hobart College.{{cite magazine |date=1878|title=George De Normandie Gillespie, S.T.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA291|magazine=A Sketch-book of the American Episcopate|pages=291|last1=Batterson|first1=Hermon Griswold |access-date=2022-03-28 |via=Google Books}}
Career
Gillespie was ordained deacon on June 28, 1840, in St Peter's Church, by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk of New York, and priest in St Mark's Church, Le Roy, New York, on June 30, 1843, by Bishop William H. DeLancey of Western New York. He then served as rector of St Mark's Church in Le Roy, New York, between 1840 till 1844, and then rector of St Paul's Church in Cincinnati between 1844 and 1851. In 1851, he became rector of Zion Church in Palmyra, New York, while in 1861, he transferred to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to serve as rector of St Andrew's Church.{{cite magazine |date=1910|title=Gillespie, George De Normandie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOMOAAAAYAAJ&q=George+De+Normandie+Gillespie+son+of&pg=PA62|magazine=The Living Church Annual|page=62}}
Bishop
In 1874, Gillespie was elected as the first bishop of Western Michigan and was consecrated on February 24, 1875, by Bishop Samuel A. McCoskry of Michigan.{{cite magazine |date=1885|title=The Right Reverend George De Normandie Gillespie, S.T.D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JR49AAAAYAAJ&q=George+De+Normandie+Gillespie+b.+June+14%2C+1810&pg=RA2-PA75|magazine=The Living Church Annual and Clergy-list Quarterly|pages=75}} He died in office on March 19, 1909, after a long illness.
References
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- "Death of Bishop Gillespie" in The Living Church, March 27, 1909, p. 712.
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Category:Episcopal bishops of Western Michigan
Category:People from Goshen, New York
Category:General Theological Seminary alumni
Category:19th-century American bishops
Category:19th-century American Episcopalians
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