page_title: William Ingraham Kip
section_title: Episcopate
hierarchical_section_title: William Ingraham Kip / Episcopate
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust of William Ingraham Kip
context_page_description: William Ingraham Kip was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.
context_section_description: In 1853, Kip was chosen to be the missionary bishop to California.  He was the 59th bishop in the ECUSA, and was consecrated by Bishops Jackson Kemper, Alfred Lee, and William Jones Boone.  He arrived in California after a journey by steamship and transit of the Panamanian isthmus, which in those days could be a dangerous journey.  Kip's brother, Leonard, had already moved to California during the Gold Rush, but returned to New York by the time Kip arrived in San Francisco.  On arriving in San Francisco, Kip had only two congregations under his charge, but the Episcopal population soon began to grow as immigrants from the East streamed into California.  When California became a diocese in its own right in 1856, Kip was elected as its first bishop. He continued to serve as Bishop of California until his death in 1893.  His last act in office was the ordination of his grandson, William Ingraham Kip, III.
  Among his works are:  
  The Lenten Fast (1843)
  Early Jesuit Missions in North America (1846)
  The Catacombs of Rome (1854)
  The Olden Time in New York (1872)
  The Church and the Apostles (1877)
  Double Witness of the Church (twenty-second edition, 1904)
caption: Bust of Kip by William Henry Rinehart.
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