Died 1 August 1963 | ||
Donald MacAdie (1899 – August 1, 1963) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, serving from 1958 to 1963.
Born in Bayonne, NJ in 1899. He attended Kenyon College where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. While at Kenyon he was drafted into the Student Army Training Corps during World War I and attended Officers Training School at Camp Grant, IL. After being discharged at the end of the war, he graduated from Kenyon in 1922 then attended Bexley Hall before transferring to General Theological Seminary where he graduated in 1924.
He was ordained in 1925. His first assignment was as Rector of St. Mary’s Church in Haledon, NJ where he stayed until 1929. From 1929 to 1931 he was the Executive Secretary of the diocese’s social service and field department. From 1931 to 1958 he was the Rector of St. John’s Church in Passaic, NJ.
In 1958 he was named Suffragan Bishop of Newark and received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Kenyon.
During his life he was married twice, first to Ruth Comer MacAdie and then Helen Myer MacAdie.
He died in Passaic, New Jersey.