Lindel Tsen

January 7, 1885 (age 69)

Tsen was the first and only Chinese Presiding Bishop of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui before it was formally disbanded in 1949 after the communist revolution in China. Born in impoverished circumstances in Wuhu, Anhui Province in 1885. Homeless at the age of 14, Tsen was taken in by the Francis East. Lund of the American Church Mission. One of the few Chinese confirmed by James Addison Ingle during his brief tenure as Bishop of Hankow. Ordained as a deacon in 1909 in Saint Paul"s Cathedral, Hankow by Bishop Logan Roots and as an Anglican priest by Bishop Huntingdon in 1912. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an Master of Arts in Sociology in 1926. Tsen was consecrated as Assistant Bishop of Honan on 23 February 1929, becoming the first Chinese diocesan bishop in an established Anglican diocese. In the Summer of 1930 Tsen was also the first Chinese bishop to attend the Lambeth Conference. When Bishop White retired in 1935 Tsen was elevated by the House of Bishops to serve as the next Bishop of Honan. At the end of the Second World War Tsen attended the Lambeth Conference of 1948, but was placed under house arrest immediately on his return.

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A student at Saint James High School in Wuhu thereafter Boone College in Wuchang where he graduated from Boone Divinity School in 1909.

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Tsen was the first and only Chinese Presiding Bishop of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui before it was formally disbanded in 1949 after the communist revolution in China. Born in impoverished circumstances in Wuhu, Anhui Province in 1885. Homeless at the age of 14, Tsen was taken in by the Francis East. Lund of the American Church Mission.

One of the few Chinese confirmed by James Addison Ingle during his brief tenure as Bishop of Hankow.

Ordained as a deacon in 1909 in Saint Paul"s Cathedral, Hankow by Bishop Logan Roots and as an Anglican priest by Bishop Huntingdon in 1912. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an Master of Arts in Sociology in 1926.

Tsen was consecrated as Assistant Bishop of Honan on 23 February 1929, becoming the first Chinese diocesan bishop in an established Anglican diocese. In the Summer of 1930 Tsen was also the first Chinese bishop to attend the Lambeth Conference.

When Bishop White retired in 1935 Tsen was elevated by the House of Bishops to serve as the next Bishop of Honan.

At the end of the Second World War Tsen attended the Lambeth Conference of 1948, but was placed under house arrest immediately on his return.

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