Charles J. Kinsolving III

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rio Grande

Mary Virginia Robinson

(m. 1932)

Children2Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of New Mexico and Southwest Texas (1953-1956)Alma materUniversity of the South

Charles James Kinsolving III (January 14, 1904 – March 14, 1984) was an Episcopal prelate who served as Bishop of New Mexico and Southwest Texas from 1956 to 1972.

Early life and education

He was born in Brooklyn on January 14, 1904, to Charles James Kinsolving, Jr. and Edith Minturn Lewis. He received his education at Terrill Preparatory School in Dallas, Texas, and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, he pursued studies at the University of the South, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1925 and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1930. He married Mary Virginia Robinson on August 2, 1932, and the couple had two children together.^[1]

Ordained ministry

Kinsolving was ordained deacon in June 1928, and a priest in January 1929 by Bishop Harry Tunis Moore of Dallas.^[2] He served as curate at St Matthew's Cathedral in Dallas, Texas, between 1928 and 1929 and then priest-in-charge of the churches in Greenville, Texas, Denton, Texas, and Commerce, Texas, from 1929 to 1936. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. Between 1928 and 1936 he also served as chairman of the Student Work committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. From 1937 to 1938 he was chairman of the Department for Christian Education, and from 1938 as chairman of the Department of Christian Social Relations.^[3]

Bishop

In 1953, Kinsolving was elected Coadjutor Bishop of New Mexico and Southwest Texas and was consecrated on October 27, 1953, in St John's Cathedral by Bishop James M. Stoney.^[4] He succeeded Stoney as diocesan in 1956 and retained the post until his own resignation on January 14, 1972. He died on March 14, 1984, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery.^[5]

References

^ "KINSOLVING, CHARLES JAMES, III". Who's Who in the West. 13: 364. 1972. ISBN 9780837909134.
^ "KINSOLVING, Charles James, 3rd". Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Episcopal Church: 201. 1953.
^ "CHARLES JAMES KINSOLVING, III, D.D. (525)". Lighting the Candle; the Episcopal Church on the Upper Rio Grande. 1961.
^ "Bishop Kinsolving Consecrated". The Living Church. 127 (19): 8. November 8, 1953.
^ Davis, C. (2009). From a Grain of Mustard Seed, p. 168. Lulu. ISBN 0557027632.