Ivan Lee Holt

Background

Holt, Ivan Lee was born on January 9, 1886 in De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States. Son of Robert Paine and Ella (Thomas) Holt.

Education

Graduate Fordyce (Arkansas) Training School, 1901. Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University 1904. University of Chicago, 1907-1910, Doctor of Philosophy, 1909.

Traveled and studied in Europe, 1911, 21, 22.

Doctor of Divinity, Central College, 1918, Duke, 1933. Doctor of Laws, Southern College, 1929, Emory University, 1934, U. Arkansas 1937.

Doctor of Letters, Ohio Wesleyan. South.T.D., Syracuse; Doctor of Laws, Southern Methodist U. Doctorate. Doctorate., Toronto U. 1947.

Doctor of Humane Letters, McLendon College, 1962.

Career

; 1 son Ivan; married second, Mistress H. A. Carithers, 1950 (deceased). Married 3d, Mistress Modena M. Rudiswell, April 15, 1966. Professor Greek and Latin, Stuttgart (Arkansas) Training School, 1904-1907.

Ordained to ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1909.

Pastor University Church, Saint Louis, 1909-1911, Centenary Church, Cape Girardeau, 1911-1915. Professor Old Testament literature Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1915-1918, also chairman theological faculty and chaplain of university.

Pastor Saint John's Church, Saint Louis, 1918-1938. Bishop of Methodist Church 1938-1944.

Bishop in charge of Methodist Conferences in Missouri, since 1944, and in Latin American.

Visiting minister Community Church in Shanghai, 1935. Visiting minister Deer Park Congressional Church, Toronto, 1939. President Board Pensions, Methodist Church (Missouri Corporation).

President, Federal Council Churches of Christ in American.

President Church Federation, Saint Louis. Member general conference and general board education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Trustee Southern Methodist University, Central College. Chairman Commision on Christian Unity of Federal Council.

Member Executive Committee Edinburgh-Oxford Continuation Coms.

Member Executive Committee World Alliance for International Friendship. Representative American Protestantism at a special meeting of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, summer 1939. Delegate World Conferences, Oxford and Edinburgh, 1937, European Methodist Conference Copenhagen, 1939, North America Ecumenical Conference, Toronto, 1940.

Chairman Methodist Ecumenical Council.

Member central committee, vice chairman United States section, World Council of Churches. Trustee Church Peace Union.

Chairman Commision on Ritual and Order of Worship of Methodist Church. President Methodist History Society, vice chairman Commision on Interdenominational Relations.

Member Federal Council Commision on Worship Research, International Justice and Goodwill.

1st president World Methodist Council.

Achievements

• Ivan Lee Holt has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, bishop. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member general conference and general board education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Member Executive Committee Edinburgh-Oxford Continuation Coms. Member Executive Committee World Alliance for International Friendship.

Member central committee, vice chairman United States section, World Council of Churches.

Member Federal Council Commision on Worship Research, International Justice and Goodwill. Member American Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Religious Education Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Beta Kappa.

Mason (33°, Shriner). Clubs: Noonday, University Missouri Athletic, Kiwanis, Advertising, Sandwich, Glen Echo Country.

Connections

Married Leland Burks, June 6, 1906 (deceased. Married second, Mistress. Married 3d, Mistress.

Father:

Robert Paine Holt

Mother:

Ella (Thomas) Holt

Spouse:

Leland Burks

Spouse:

Mistress