John McKim
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The Right Reverend John McKim |
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| Church | Anglican Church in Japan |
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| Consecration | by Abram N. Littlejohn, Theodore B. Lyman, Thomas U.Dudley |
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| Born |
July 17, 1852 Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Died | 4 April 1936 (aged 83) Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Education |
Griswold College Nashotah House |
John McKim (July 17, 1852 - April 4, 1936) was an American missionary who became Anglican Bishop of Tokyo (later North Tokyo) and Chancellor of Rikkyo University, which was part of the infrastructure he helped rebuild after a severe earthquake in 1923.
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on July 17, 1852 to John and Mary Ann McKim, McKim attended the local public schools. After graduating from Griswold College in Iowa (named after Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold), McKim attended Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. At some point he earned a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree. Rt.Rev. McKim later received honorary degrees from Trinity College and Oxford University, as well as the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Japanese government.
McKim married twice. He married Ellen Augusta Cole on September 16, 1879. They had two sons, Rev. John Cole McKim (1881-1952, who became a missionary in Japan and then retired to Peekskill, New York and became a writer) and Wilson Moran McKim (1888-195 , who lived near Sterling, Illinois). After she died in Tokyo on October 17, 1915, McKim remarried, to widow Elizabeth (Mrs. John) Baird of Quebec on May 4, 1924. He was survived by his second wife, sons and daughters Bessie and Nellie McKim (who remained in Japan on the Episcopal mission staff).
He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1879 and immediately set sail for Japan. Upon arriving in 1880, Rev. McKim began working around Osaka. He became chaplain to St. Agnes School in Kyoto.
In 1881, bishop Channing Moore Williams announced his upcoming retirement. Two years later, the General Convention announced McKim would succeed Rt. Rev. Williams. He returned to the United States and was consecrated Bishop of Tokyo (with jurisdiction extending from Osaka to Aomori) on June 14, 1893 at St. Thomas Church, New York City. During the same service Frederick Rogers Graves was consecrated bishop of Shanghai.
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