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Bishop Kip's Home Communion Kit |
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
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 On Tuesday, November 13, Major General (Retired) Orlo Steele (USMC – pictured left), senior warden and long-time vestry member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Grass Valley, came to Diocesan House to present the diocese with a home communion kit that is thought to have been originally owned by the Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, the first bishop of California. Steele joined Mary Judith Robinson, great-great granddaughter of Bishop Kip (pictured right), to make the presentation to the Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus on behalf of the Diocese of California.
The kit had been given to Emmanuel by the Rev. Donald Royer who received it from a parishioner whose brother, a priest, had received it from Kip. It was used for home visits by the Rev. Noel Porter (later Bishop of Northern Califonia) and the Rev. Frank Henriques.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 November 2007 )
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