The Right Reverend

Edward Clark Turner
Bishop of Kansas
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseKansas
ElectedFebruary 12, 1956
In office1959-1981
PredecessorGoodrich R. Fenner
SuccessorRichard F. Grein
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 19, 1940
by Edward Makin Cross
ConsecrationMay 22, 1956
by Goodrich R. Fenner
Personal details
Born(1915-03-26)March 26, 1915
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedJune 21, 1997(1997-06-21) (aged 82)
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsEdward Turner & Eva Helen Clark
Spouse
Virginia Hunter
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(m. 1938)​
Children4
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Kansas (1956-1959)
Alma materNorthwestern University

Edward Clark Turner (March 26, 1915 – June 21, 1997) was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas between 1959 and 1981.

Early life and education

Turner was born on March 26, 1915, in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Edward Turner and Eva Helen Clark. He came to the United States in 1922.[1] He was then educated at the high school in Evanston, Illinois, and then studied at Northwestern University from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1937. He also studied at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and earned a Bachelor of Divinity in 1940 and an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1954. On November 19, 1938, he married Virginia Hunter and together had four children.[2]

Ordained ministry

Turner was ordained deacon on March 16, 1940, by Bishop Frank McElwain of Minnesota and priest on September 19, 1940, by Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane. He was assigned as vicar to the missions of St. John in Okanogan, St. Paul in Omak, Trinity in Oroville and Transfiguration in Twisp, Washington, where he served from 1940 until 1944.[3] He then became rector of the Church of the Ascension and Holy Trinity in Pueblo, Colorado, where he remained until 1956. He simultaneously served as Dean of the Sothern Deanery of Colorado and chaplain and administrator of Parkview Episcopal Hospital. [4]

Bishop

On February 12, 1956, Turner was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Kansas during a diocesan convention held in Grace Cathedral. He was consecrated in the same cathedral on May 22, 1956, by Goodrich R. Fenner of Kansas.[5] He then succeeded as diocesan bishop in 1959 and remained in office until his retirement on May 22, 1981. Turner and his wife retired to Colorado, where he died in 1997.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Edward Clark Turner". Plenteous Harvest: The Episcopal Church in Kansas 1837-1972: 262. 1973.
  2. ↑ "TURNER, EDWARD CLARK". Who's Who in the Midwest. 16: 714. 1978.
  3. ↑ "TURNER , Edward Clark". Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Episcopal Church: 29–. 1941.
  4. ↑ Morehouse, Clifford (1957). "Bishops Consecrated in 1956: The Rt. Rev. Edward Clark Turner, D.D.". The Episcopal Church Annual. New York: Morehouse-Gorham Company. p. 517. OCLC 1006417914.
  5. ↑ "Rev. E. C. Turner Consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Kansas: Bishop Fener Presides over Ceremony at Grace Cathedral". The Living Church. 132 (22): 12. June 3, 1956.
  6. ↑ Woerman, Melodie (July 20, 1997). "Bishop Turner Dies; Was Kansas Diocesan". The Living Church. 215 (3): 6. The Rt. Rev. Edward C. Turner, sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas, died June 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Co. He was 82.
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