Francis Key Brooke
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The Right Reverend Francis Key Brooke | |
|---|---|
| Missionary Bishop of Oklahoma and Indian Territory | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Oklahoma |
| Elected | 1892 |
| In office | 1893-1918 |
| Successor | Theodore Payne Thurston |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | May 6, 1877 by Thomas Augustus Jaggar |
| Consecration | January 6, 1893 by Daniel S. Tuttle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 2, 1852 |
| Died | October 22, 1918 (aged 65) |
| Buried | Kenyon Cemetery, Gambier, Ohio |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | John Thomson Brooke & Louisa R. Hunter |
| Spouse |
Mildred R. Baldwin (m. 1881) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Kenyon College |
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Francis Key Brooke (November 2, 1852 – October 22, 1918) was a missionary bishop of what is now the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, serving from 1893 to 1918.
Brooke was born on November 2, 1852, in Gambier, Ohio, the son of the Reverend John Thomson Brooke and Louisa R. Hunter.[1] He studied at Kenyon College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1874, and a Master of Arts in 1881. He was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Kansas Theological School in 1892, and a Doctor of Divinity from the University of the South in 1911, and another from Kenyon in 1912.[2]
Ordained ministry
Brooke was ordained deacon on November 21, 1875, in Christ Church, Cincinnati and then priest, on May 6, 1877, in Christ Church, Springfield, Ohio, on both occasions by Bishop Thomas Augustus Jaggar of Southern Ohio. He was rector of Grace Church in College Hill, Cincinnati from 1875 to 1877, and then rector of Christ Church in Portsmouth, Ohio, between 1877 and 1880. Between 1880 and 1884 he served as rector of St James' Church in Piqua, Ohio, before becoming rector of Grace Church in Sandusky, Ohio.[3] In 1886 he moved to St Peter’s Church in St. Louis, while in 1888 he became rector of Trinity Church in Atchison, Kansas, where he remained until 1893. He was also an honorary canon of Grace Cathedral in Topeka, Kansas.[4]
