Sidney Catlin Partridge (September 1, 1857 – June 22, 1930) was the first Bishop of

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(1900–1911) and the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri (1911–1930).

Early life and education

Partridge was born in

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on September 1, 1857 to George Sidney Partridge and Helen Derby Catlin. He graduated from Yale in 1880, where he served on the eighth editorial board of ''

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'' and was a member of Skull and Bones. He then undertook studies at Berkeley Divinity School and graduated in 1884.

Ordained Ministry

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, Bishop of Connecticut, ordained Partridge to the diaconate on June 4, 1884 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in

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. He then worked as a missionary in China under Bishop William Jones Boone, Jr. who ordained him a priest in 1885. Between 1884 and 1887 he served as an instructor in natural science at St John's Missionary College in

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and was treasurer of the mission. He then was in charge of Bishop Bonne Memorial School in Wuchang until 1899 where he taught Chinese and English. He was also involved in teaching bible studies at St Peter's Divinity School.

Bishop

In January 1900, Partridge was elected as the first Missionary Bishop of Kyoto in Japan, and was consecrated on February 2, 1900, in Trinity Cathedral,

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by the Bishop of Tokyo

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. Other bishops in attendance included: * William Awdry, Bishop of South Tokyo * Hugh James Foss, Bishop of Osaka * Philip Kemball Fyson, Bishop of Hokkaido * Frederick Rogers Graves, Bishop of Shanghai *

, Bishop of North Tokyo He was decorated as a Knight of the

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following his marriage to the daughter of the Danish consul general at

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on November 27, 1901. In 1911, he was elected Bishop of West Missouri and was installed on June 27, 1911. He was a bishop associate of the American Branch of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. On June 12, 1928, Rev. Partridge offered the

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at the opening of the

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in Kansas City. He died in Kansas City, Missouri due to double lobar pneumonia. He was buried in

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in Kansas City, Missouri.

References

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