Background
Jenkins, Thomas was born on January 31, 1871 in Shenley, England. Son of John Jenkins and Mary Ann (Boyles) Jenkins.
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Thomas Jenkins
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Bachelor of Divinity, Kenyon College and Bexley Hall, 1914, Doctor of Divinity, 1924.
Career
Ordained deacon of the Episcopal Church (Diocese of Southern Ohio), 1900, ordained priest, 1901. Member Cincinnati Associate Mission, 1900-1902. Missionary in Alaska, 1902-1910.
Rector Saint Paul’s Church, Fremont, Ohio, 1910-1915, Saint David’s Church, Portland, Oregon, 1915-1925.
General missionary and educational secretary Diocese of Oregon, 1925-1929. Consecrated bishop of Missionary District of Nevada, January 25, 1929, resigned the bishopric, May 1942.
Assistant bishop, Diocese of Long Island, New York, 1946-1949. President Standing Committee for Oregon, 1919-1925.
President Board of Religious Education, Oregon, 1917-1925.
Deputy General Convention, 1907, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28. Member Pan-Anglican Congress (London), 1908, Lambeth Conference (London), 1930, 48. Author: The Church in Nevada.
The Desert Churchman.
The Manitoba of Alaska; Life of Peter Trimble Rowe, Bishop of Alaska, 1895-1942. Address: Shenley House, Portuguese Orford Oregon‡.
Achievements
Membership
Member Cincinnati Associate Mission, 1900-1902. Member Pan-Anglican Congress (London), 1908, Lambeth Conference (London), 1930, 48.
Connections
Married Ruth Mary Prichard, August 15, 1901. Married second, Edith Smith, May 1942.
