Stephen Keeler
{{Short description|American bishop (1887–1956)}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Stephen Edwards Keeler
| honorific_suffix = D.D., S.T.D.
| title = Bishop of Minnesota
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| diocese = Minnesota
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| term = 1943–1956
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| predecessor = Frank McElwain
| successor = Hamilton Hyde Kellogg
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| ordination = June 3, 1914
| ordained_by = Chauncey B. Brewster
| consecration = June 24, 1931
| consecrated_by = Frederick Bingham Howden
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|04|16}}
| birth_place = New Canaan, Connecticut, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|09|25|1887|04|16}}
| death_place = Patrick Henry Village, Heidelberg, West Germany
| buried = St Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis
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| nationality = American
| religion = Anglican
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| parents = Stephen Edwards Keeler & Annie Demarest Husted
| spouse = {{marriage|Eunice Daskam Stevens|1915}}
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| previous_post = Coadjutor Bishop of Minnesota (1931-1943)
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| alma_mater = Yale University
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Stephen Edwards Keeler (April 16, 1887 – September 25, 1956) was the fourth diocesan bishop of Minnesota in The Episcopal Church.
Early life and education
Keeler was born on April 16, 1887, in New Canaan, Connecticut, the son of Stephen Edwards Keeler and Annie Demarest Husted. He was educated at the Hoosick Preparatory School in Hoosick, New York. He then studied at Yale University, from where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1910. he also graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary in 1913. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by Kenyon College in 1928, and a Doctor of Sacred Theology from the General Theological Seminary in 1932.{{cite journal |last=Knoble |first=John |date=August 15, 1954 |title=A portrait of Bishop Keeler |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2XkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA105 |journal=The Living Church |volume=129 |issue=7 |pages=13–14 |access-date=November 10, 2016}}
Ordained ministry
Keeler was ordained deacon on June 4, 1913 and priest on June 3, 1914. He served as a curate at St Paul's Church in Cleveland, Ohio between 1913 and 1915, and then as rector of St Stephen's Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts between 1915 and 1923. In 1923, he became rector of St Paul's Church in Akron, Ohio, while in 1928 he transferred to Chicago to serve as rector of St Chrysostom's Church, where he remained till 1931.
Bishop
Keeler was consecrated as bishop coadjutor of Minnesota on June 24, 1931.{{cite book |author= |title=The Living Church Annual: the Year Book of the Episcopal Church |location=New York |publisher=Morehouse-Gorham |page=70 |date=1932}}{{cite news | author=| title=BISHOP KEELER DIES IN EUROPE | newspaper= Spokane Daily Chronicle | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19560926&id=h-ZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2_YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1542,2334064 | date= September 26, 1956 | accessdate= January 14, 2014}}
Keeler died on a trip to Germany in 1956 and was buried at St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis,{{cite news |author= |title=STEPHEN KEELER, A BISHOP, IS DEAD; Head of Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota Succumbs on Church Trip to Europe--Played Host to Anglicans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/09/27/archives/stephen-keeler-a-bishop-is-dead-head-of-episcopal-diocese-of.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 27, 1956}} which he consecrated in 1941.{{cite web |url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/article/new-minnesota-deans-face-change-calling-and-confidence |title=New Minnesota deans face change with calling and confidence |last=Bjordal |first=Joe |date=November 17, 2014 |website=The Episcopal Church |publisher=The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society |quote=St. Mark’s was consecrated a cathedral in 1941 by then Bishop Stephen Keeler.}}
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://www.episcopalmn.org/ The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota]
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Category:Episcopal bishops of Minnesota
Category:People from New Canaan, Connecticut
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:General Theological Seminary alumni