BISHOP-CONVERTS.

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 13

BISHOP-CONVERTS.

Dr. Kinsman, who was recently received into the Church in America, is another case in the course of the High Church movement'of the conversion of an Anglican Bishop (says the Catholic Bulletin, of St. Paul, U.S.A.) The first was also Americanthat of Dr. Levi Silliman Ives, Bishop of North Carolina. In 1852 he went to Rome and made, his submission to the Pope, and thus, as he himself said, "abandoned a position in which he had acted as a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church for more than 30 years, and as a bishop of the same for more than 20, and sought late in life admission as a layman into the Holy Catholic Church, with no prospect before him, but simply peace of conscience >. and the: salvation of his soul." His wife, a daughter of the Protestant Bishop Hobart, also became a Catholic. Returning to the United States Dr. Ives was made professor of rhetoric at St. Joseph's Seminary, New York. Subsequently he established the Catholic Protectory in New York, and was tho first president of that institution. : '"- :i ■>:: .-<"■ •"!-•'■•.''.'■'■ : ■,"■'■■'• "' •' ' :