Sidney Catlin Partridge
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Sidney Catlin Partridge (September 1, 1857-June 22, 1930) was the first Bishop of Kyoto (1900–1911) and the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri
Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri
The Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over western Missouri. It is in Province 7 and its cathedral, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, is in Kansas City, Missouri, as are the diocesan offices.-Bishops of West...

 (1911–1930).

He was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale in 1880, where he was a member of Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....

, and from Berkeley Divinity School
Berkeley Divinity School
Berkeley Divinity School, founded in 1854, is an official seminary of the Episcopal Church, based in New Haven, Connecticut. The seminary was originally founded as a middle-way between the Anglo-Catholic leaning General Theological Seminary in New York, and the Evangelical-leaning Virginia...

 in 1884. He was ordained to the diaconate by John Williams, Bishop of Connecticut, on June 4, 1884, and worked as a missionary in China under Bishop William Jones Boone, Jr.
William Jones Boone, Jr.
William Jones Boone was the fourth Anglican missionary bishop of Shanghai. Boone was born in Shanghai, son of and namesake of Bishop William Boone. He studied at Princeton University and attended Virginia Theological Seminary prior to his ordination to the diaconate in Petersburg, Virginia in 1868...

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He was consecrated first Bishop of Kyoto on February 2, 1900 in Trinity Cathedral, Tokyo. Other bishops in attendance included
  • William Awdry
    William Awdry
    William Awdry was the inaugural Bishop of Southampton and Osaka who subsequently served South Tokyo.He was the fourth son of Sir John Wither Awdry and his second wife Frances Ellen Carr, second daughter of Thomas Carr Awdry was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford...

    , Bishop of South Tokyo
  • Hugh James Foss
    Hugh James Foss
    Hugh James Foss was an Anglican bishop, the second Bishop of Osaka.Hugh James Foss was born into a legal family: his father was Edward Foss, author of The Judges of England. He was educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1873, he spent a three year curacy in...

    , Bishop of Osaka
  • Philip Kemball Fyson
    Philip Kemball Fyson
    Philip Kemball Fyson was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Hokkaido, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the province of the Anglican Communion in Japan....

    , Bishop of Hokkaido
  • Frederick Rogers Graves
    Frederick Rogers Graves
    Frederick Rogers Graves was an American missionary to China. He served as fifth missionary bishop of the Anglican diocese of Shanghai from 1893-1937. Graves assisted in the organization of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, and served as chairman of its House of Bishops from 1915 to 1926...

    , Bishop of Shanghai
  • John McKim, Bishop of Tokyo


He was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
Order of the Dannebrog
The Order of the Dannebrog is an Order of Denmark, instituted in 1671 by Christian V. It resulted from a move in 1660 to break the absolutism of the nobility. The Order was only to comprise 50 noble Knights in one class plus the Master of the Order, i.e. the Danish monarch, and his sons...

 following his marriage to the daughter of the Danish consul general at San Francisco on November 27, 1901. He was a bishop associate of the American Branch of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
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He died in Kansas City, Missouri
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