Lucien Lee Kinsolving

Lucien Lee Kinsolving (May 14, 1862 - December 18, 1929) was first bishop of the missionary diocese that eventually became the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil. He was a graduate of the Virginia Theological Seminary.

Lucien Lee Kinsolving was born to the second wife of Rev. Otis Americus Kinsolving (1822-1894), minister at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, Virginia. His mother died of complications two weeks later. Like his maternal grandfather Asa Rogers (who served as a Confederate militia general), Rev. Otis Kinsolving supported the Confederate side, and particularly Mosby's Rangers, although his eldest son Charles James Kinsolving (1846-1920) joined the Richmond Howitzers light artillery company. While Lucien was still an infant, Rev. Otis Kinsolving was imprisoned for treason by occupying Union forces, so relatives helped with the children until the widower moved with his family to Halifax County, Virginia at war's end and remarried.

Another elder half-brother by his father's first wife, George Herbert Kinsolving (1849-1928), became the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and later delivered the sermon at the consecration of this bishop. His slightly older brother, Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving (1861-1961), became known as an author and historian in Maryland and published a biography of this bishop Kinsolving in 1940. His half-brother by his father's third wife, Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, served Episcopal churches in the South and in New York City.

After education in Halifax and then Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, Kinsolving spent three years as a lay missionary among the small parishes in West Virginia. He then decided upon a theological career common to many in his family and enrolled at the University of Virginia. After two years, he moved back to Alexandria to attend Virginia Theological Seminary (1886-1889) with a special interest in Brazil, although at the time seminary policy discouraged mission work in Catholic countries.

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