MISSIONARY IN JAPAN 1880-1935
BISHOP OF NORTH TOKYO 1893-1935
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The Right Rev. John McKim, native of Pittsfield and Episcopal bishop of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years until his resignation last November, died Saturday at his home in Honolulu after 57 years ministry in Japan. He recently was awarded the Order of the Scared Treasure by the Japanese Government. He was 83 years old.
Bishop McKim was born in Pittsfield, son of James and Mary Ann (Dunbar) McKim. He spent his early life in this city and attended the public schools. His mother was a member of the well-known Pittsfield family of Dunbar's. The McKim's lived in the southeast section of the city and his father was in business. After leaving here, Bishop McKim returned on visits several times. He had not been to the city recently.
After attending school in this city, the future bishop went to Nashotah House in Wisconsin to study. He later received degrees from Trinity College and Oxford. He was a prominent member of the Asiatic Society in America and the Japanese Asiatic Society.
Bishop McKim is survived by his second wife, formerly Mrs. John Baird of Quebec; a son, the Rev. John Cole McKim of Peekskill, N.Y., and two daughters, the Misses Bessie and Nellie McKim, both of the Episcopal mission staff in Japan.
The funeral service was planned to take place today in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu. Burial will take place at Nashotah, Wis.
A man of rugged constitution, Bishop McKim until the last years of his administration travelled all over Japan, visiting the isolated rural and mountain regions and enduring the privations of a pioneer missionary.
Immediately after his ordination in the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879, he went to Japan as a missionary, spending the earlier parts of his service in the city of Osaka.
He was elected Bishop of Tokyo in 1893, with jurisdiction extending from Osaka in the South to Aomori in the North. Under his leadership the huge diocese was divided four times. There are now six bishops in the area which he once served along. Two are Japanese.
Bishop McKim had the satisfaction of seeing his own church grown from a few score followers without a single Japanese priest into an independent branch of the Anglican communion, the Nippon Sei Kokwai. This branch is well organized, self-governing, self-propagating and in a large extent self-supporting. He saw the Japanese branch of his church organized two years before Japan adopted a constitution.
The missions grew, fine church buildings and hospital were erected, and mission centers established at all important points. Then came the disaster of 1923, when all that was destroyed in a few hours in the Tokyo-Yokohama region.
This included the total destruction of St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo, which had so much of his interest and support. Bishop McKim set out at once to rebuild and rehabilitate. Order came out of chaos in four months, and definite plans had been made for reconstruction in that comparatively short period.
Bishop McKim insisted upon the continuation of movement for the independent church, and in December 1923, this became an accomplished fact. Toda St. Luke's Hospital, St. Peter's University and many churches and institutions stand as monuments to Bishop McKim and his associates.
Thank you to contributor Alan Sorrell (49523828) for this information.
BISHOP OF NORTH TOKYO 1893-1935
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The Right Rev. John McKim, native of Pittsfield and Episcopal bishop of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years until his resignation last November, died Saturday at his home in Honolulu after 57 years ministry in Japan. He recently was awarded the Order of the Scared Treasure by the Japanese Government. He was 83 years old.
Bishop McKim was born in Pittsfield, son of James and Mary Ann (Dunbar) McKim. He spent his early life in this city and attended the public schools. His mother was a member of the well-known Pittsfield family of Dunbar's. The McKim's lived in the southeast section of the city and his father was in business. After leaving here, Bishop McKim returned on visits several times. He had not been to the city recently.
After attending school in this city, the future bishop went to Nashotah House in Wisconsin to study. He later received degrees from Trinity College and Oxford. He was a prominent member of the Asiatic Society in America and the Japanese Asiatic Society.
Bishop McKim is survived by his second wife, formerly Mrs. John Baird of Quebec; a son, the Rev. John Cole McKim of Peekskill, N.Y., and two daughters, the Misses Bessie and Nellie McKim, both of the Episcopal mission staff in Japan.
The funeral service was planned to take place today in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu. Burial will take place at Nashotah, Wis.
A man of rugged constitution, Bishop McKim until the last years of his administration travelled all over Japan, visiting the isolated rural and mountain regions and enduring the privations of a pioneer missionary.
Immediately after his ordination in the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879, he went to Japan as a missionary, spending the earlier parts of his service in the city of Osaka.
He was elected Bishop of Tokyo in 1893, with jurisdiction extending from Osaka in the South to Aomori in the North. Under his leadership the huge diocese was divided four times. There are now six bishops in the area which he once served along. Two are Japanese.
Bishop McKim had the satisfaction of seeing his own church grown from a few score followers without a single Japanese priest into an independent branch of the Anglican communion, the Nippon Sei Kokwai. This branch is well organized, self-governing, self-propagating and in a large extent self-supporting. He saw the Japanese branch of his church organized two years before Japan adopted a constitution.
The missions grew, fine church buildings and hospital were erected, and mission centers established at all important points. Then came the disaster of 1923, when all that was destroyed in a few hours in the Tokyo-Yokohama region.
This included the total destruction of St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo, which had so much of his interest and support. Bishop McKim set out at once to rebuild and rehabilitate. Order came out of chaos in four months, and definite plans had been made for reconstruction in that comparatively short period.
Bishop McKim insisted upon the continuation of movement for the independent church, and in December 1923, this became an accomplished fact. Toda St. Luke's Hospital, St. Peter's University and many churches and institutions stand as monuments to Bishop McKim and his associates.
Thank you to contributor Alan Sorrell (49523828) for this information.
MISSIONARY IN JAPAN 1880-1935
BISHOP OF NORTH TOKYO 1893-1935
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The Right Rev. John McKim, native of Pittsfield and Episcopal bishop of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years until his resignation last November, died Saturday at his home in Honolulu after 57 years ministry in Japan. He recently was awarded the Order of the Scared Treasure by the Japanese Government. He was 83 years old.
Bishop McKim was born in Pittsfield, son of James and Mary Ann (Dunbar) McKim. He spent his early life in this city and attended the public schools. His mother was a member of the well-known Pittsfield family of Dunbar's. The McKim's lived in the southeast section of the city and his father was in business. After leaving here, Bishop McKim returned on visits several times. He had not been to the city recently.
After attending school in this city, the future bishop went to Nashotah House in Wisconsin to study. He later received degrees from Trinity College and Oxford. He was a prominent member of the Asiatic Society in America and the Japanese Asiatic Society.
Bishop McKim is survived by his second wife, formerly Mrs. John Baird of Quebec; a son, the Rev. John Cole McKim of Peekskill, N.Y., and two daughters, the Misses Bessie and Nellie McKim, both of the Episcopal mission staff in Japan.
The funeral service was planned to take place today in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu. Burial will take place at Nashotah, Wis.
A man of rugged constitution, Bishop McKim until the last years of his administration travelled all over Japan, visiting the isolated rural and mountain regions and enduring the privations of a pioneer missionary.
Immediately after his ordination in the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879, he went to Japan as a missionary, spending the earlier parts of his service in the city of Osaka.
He was elected Bishop of Tokyo in 1893, with jurisdiction extending from Osaka in the South to Aomori in the North. Under his leadership the huge diocese was divided four times. There are now six bishops in the area which he once served along. Two are Japanese.
Bishop McKim had the satisfaction of seeing his own church grown from a few score followers without a single Japanese priest into an independent branch of the Anglican communion, the Nippon Sei Kokwai. This branch is well organized, self-governing, self-propagating and in a large extent self-supporting. He saw the Japanese branch of his church organized two years before Japan adopted a constitution.
The missions grew, fine church buildings and hospital were erected, and mission centers established at all important points. Then came the disaster of 1923, when all that was destroyed in a few hours in the Tokyo-Yokohama region.
This included the total destruction of St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo, which had so much of his interest and support. Bishop McKim set out at once to rebuild and rehabilitate. Order came out of chaos in four months, and definite plans had been made for reconstruction in that comparatively short period.
Bishop McKim insisted upon the continuation of movement for the independent church, and in December 1923, this became an accomplished fact. Toda St. Luke's Hospital, St. Peter's University and many churches and institutions stand as monuments to Bishop McKim and his associates.
Thank you to contributor Alan Sorrell (49523828) for this information.
BISHOP OF NORTH TOKYO 1893-1935
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The Right Rev. John McKim, native of Pittsfield and Episcopal bishop of North Tokyo, Japan for 42 years until his resignation last November, died Saturday at his home in Honolulu after 57 years ministry in Japan. He recently was awarded the Order of the Scared Treasure by the Japanese Government. He was 83 years old.
Bishop McKim was born in Pittsfield, son of James and Mary Ann (Dunbar) McKim. He spent his early life in this city and attended the public schools. His mother was a member of the well-known Pittsfield family of Dunbar's. The McKim's lived in the southeast section of the city and his father was in business. After leaving here, Bishop McKim returned on visits several times. He had not been to the city recently.
After attending school in this city, the future bishop went to Nashotah House in Wisconsin to study. He later received degrees from Trinity College and Oxford. He was a prominent member of the Asiatic Society in America and the Japanese Asiatic Society.
Bishop McKim is survived by his second wife, formerly Mrs. John Baird of Quebec; a son, the Rev. John Cole McKim of Peekskill, N.Y., and two daughters, the Misses Bessie and Nellie McKim, both of the Episcopal mission staff in Japan.
The funeral service was planned to take place today in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu. Burial will take place at Nashotah, Wis.
A man of rugged constitution, Bishop McKim until the last years of his administration travelled all over Japan, visiting the isolated rural and mountain regions and enduring the privations of a pioneer missionary.
Immediately after his ordination in the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879, he went to Japan as a missionary, spending the earlier parts of his service in the city of Osaka.
He was elected Bishop of Tokyo in 1893, with jurisdiction extending from Osaka in the South to Aomori in the North. Under his leadership the huge diocese was divided four times. There are now six bishops in the area which he once served along. Two are Japanese.
Bishop McKim had the satisfaction of seeing his own church grown from a few score followers without a single Japanese priest into an independent branch of the Anglican communion, the Nippon Sei Kokwai. This branch is well organized, self-governing, self-propagating and in a large extent self-supporting. He saw the Japanese branch of his church organized two years before Japan adopted a constitution.
The missions grew, fine church buildings and hospital were erected, and mission centers established at all important points. Then came the disaster of 1923, when all that was destroyed in a few hours in the Tokyo-Yokohama region.
This included the total destruction of St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo, which had so much of his interest and support. Bishop McKim set out at once to rebuild and rehabilitate. Order came out of chaos in four months, and definite plans had been made for reconstruction in that comparatively short period.
Bishop McKim insisted upon the continuation of movement for the independent church, and in December 1923, this became an accomplished fact. Toda St. Luke's Hospital, St. Peter's University and many churches and institutions stand as monuments to Bishop McKim and his associates.
Thank you to contributor Alan Sorrell (49523828) for this information.
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