Terence Kelshaw

Terence Kelshaw
VII Bishop of the Rio Grande
ChurchEpiscopal Church in the United States of America/Anglican Church in North America
DioceseRio Grande
In office1989–2004
PredecessorRichard M. Trelease Jr.
SuccessorJeffrey N. Steenson
Orders
Ordination1968
Consecration1989
by Edmond Browning
Personal details
Born(1936-10-04)4 October 1936
Died5 July 2015(2015-07-05) (aged 78)

Terence Kelshaw (4 October 1936 – 5 July 2015) was an English-born American Anglican bishop.

Kelshaw studied at Oakhill Theology College, London University, where he graduated with a degree in theology in 1967. He was ordained a deacon in 1967 and a priest in September 1968. He received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1986.

Kelshaw was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande from March 1989 to 2004. An Evangelical and theological conservative, he opposed the liberal leanings of the Episcopal Church in the United States, including its acceptance of non-celibate homosexual clergy.[1] After retirement, he ministered as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Uganda in 2008 and subsequently in the Anglican Church in North America (a then newly-formed denomination not within the Anglican Communion) in that church's Diocese of the Southwest.

Kelshaw died on 5 July 2015, aged 78 years old.

  1. ^ "The Right Rev. Terence Kelshaw - Pastoral Letter from the Rt. Rev. Terence Kelshaw, Bishop of the Rio Grande, from General Convention, 2003". Americananglican.org. 2003-08-05. Archived from the original on 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2012-09-27.