Clyde Johnstone Kennedy | |
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Born |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
July 2, 1907
Died | September 22, 1962 | (aged 55)
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of California Princeton Theological Seminary |
Occupation | Pastor, Educator |
Spouse(s) | Dorothy Rose Goodner |
Religion | Christianity - Bible Presbyterian |
Clyde J. Kennedy was an American Bible Presbyterian pastor and Christian educator. He was the president of Shelton College and is best known for being the founder of Highland College.
Clyde Johnstone Kennedy was born on July 2, 1907, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Horace Kennedy and Florence Pamela Davis. His father was of Scotch-Irish and colonial New England Calvinist stock and rose to become chief of detectives of the Halifax police force before moving to California, where he became an arson investigator for the state forestry department.
He obtained his college degree from the University of California at Los Angeles; and upon graduation from Princeton Theological Seminary he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California in 1936. Because of modernism, inclusivism, and apostasy, he left that denomination and organized the Calvary Bible Presbyterian Church in Glendale, California, where he served as pastor until 1957. After the death of the Rev. Roy T. Brumbaugh, Kennedy was called to the pastorate of the Tacoma Bible Presbyterian Church, Tacoma, Washington. In 1957, he was elected moderator of the Twenty-first General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church.
Earlier he helped in the founding of Highland College, a Bible Presbyterian four-year liberal arts Christian college located in Pasadena, California, and he served as the president of the Board of Trustees of Highland from 1951 until 1957.
He was a member of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and served on its executive committee, and while on the Pacific Coast lie was Western representative for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Home Missions.