George David Cummins

George David Cummins
Bishop G. D. Cummins
Born	December 11, 1822 Delaware, United States
Died	June 26, 1876 (aged 53) Lutherville, Maryland, United States
Alma mater	Dickinson College
Occupation	Religious leader
Known for	Founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Religion	Reformed Episcopal Church (after c. 1873)

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

Life and career

He was born in Delaware on December 11, 1822. Cummins graduated from Dickinson College, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1841,^[1] 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.^[2]

A staunch Evangelical of Reformed doctrine, Cummins opposed the influences of Ritualism and the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement.^[3] 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.^[2]

Death

Cummins died in Lutherville, Maryland, on June 26, 1876.^[4]

See also

• Cummins Memorial Church
• List of Dickinson College alumni
• List of founders of religious traditions
• List of people from Chicago
• List of people from Delaware
• List of people from Kentucky
• List of people from New York City
• List of people from Virginia
• List of people from Washington, D.C.

References

1. "George David Cummins, Class of 1841". Dickinson College.
2. "George David Cummins", in the New International Encyclopedia, 1917.
3. Price, Annie Darling (1902). A History of the Formation and Growth of the Reformed Episcopal Church. Philadelphia: J.M. Armstrong (via Google Books). p. 27ff.
4. "George David Cummins". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (via Google Books).

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.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "^{article name needed}". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.