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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Notability Шаблон:Use dmy dates Clement Daniel Rockey (4 September 1889 - 15 August 1975) was a bishop of the Methodist Church.[1]

Biography

Шаблон:Unreferenced section He was born in Cawnpore, India, a son of Mr Noble Lee Rockey, an American missionary pioneer in India.[2]

Clement entered the North India Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1914. Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a missionary, an educator, and a district superintendent. For some years he was chaplain to British Methodist troops in Bareilly. He was elected bishop by the Methodist Central Conference of Southern Asia. He returned to the United States and lived out his life in Eugene, Oregon.

Family life

Rockey was married to Helen Cady and they had three sons, Harold, Kenneth and Lee.[2] Helen was the daughter of Henry Cady and Hattie Yates, who were Methodist missionaries to China; she wrote several books including The Promise.[3]

Legacy

An English-speaking congregation meets in a school chapel in Lahore; it is dedicated in memory of Bishop Rockey.[4]

Selected writings

  • Making and Telling Bible Stories, also Roman-Urdu, Kahani ka Banana aur Sunana, 1923.
  • 52 Lessons on Christian Life and Practice, Masihi Zindagi aur Usul, 1926.
  • Book of Worship for village work, 1935.
  • Pamphlet, Come and Let Us Worship, 1945.

See also

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References

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  • Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.

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