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George David Cummins

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Alma mater
  
Dickinson College

Occupation
  
Religious leader


Name
  
George Cummins

Education
  
Dickinson College

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Born
  
December 11, 1822 (
1822-12-11
)
Delaware, United States

Known for
  
Founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church

Religion
  
Reformed Episcopal Church (after c. 1873)

Died
  
June 26, 1876, Lutherville, Maryland, United States

George David Cummins (December 11, 1822 – June 26, 1876) was an American bishop and founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church.

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Life and career

He was born in Delaware on December 11, 1822. Cummins graduated from Dickinson College, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1841, and entered the Methodist ministry.

In 1845, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church. After serving as rector of Episcopal parishes in Virginia, Washington, and Chicago, Cummins was appointed Assistant Bishop of Kentucky in 1866.

A staunch Evangelical of Reformed doctrine, Cummins opposed the influences of Ritualism and the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement. In 1873, he was criticized for receiving communion with ministers outside of the Protestant Episcopal Church and resigned his position. He then founded the Reformed Episcopal Church, of which he was the first presiding bishop, in New York City.

Death

Cummins died in Lutherville, Maryland, on June 26, 1876.

Publications

  • Alexandrine Macomb Cummins (Mrs. G.D. Cummins). Memoir of George David Cummins (New York, 1878).
  • Historical material by and about Cummins from Project Canterbury
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. 
  • Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians (Penn State Press, 2010)

    • References

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