Leontine T.C. Kelly, a daughter and wife of ministers who followed his calling and became the first black bishop in the woman a major Christian denomination, when the United Methodist Church raised its position in 1984, has died. He was 92 years.
Kelly, who oversaw the Northern California and Nevada for the 1984-1988 church, while based in San Francisco, died on June 28 announced the name. She had been in poor health for some time, living in a nursing home in Oakland.
When Kelly was appointed bishop at the age of 64 years, has become the second woman to hold this position at the United Methodist Church.
He also served as president of the legal designation of the Western bishops, assuming the duties of managing director and spiritual guide of the 100,000 members of his flock.
Kelly, who is regarded as a social activist and political leader and spiritual, has supported the inclusion of gays and lesbians in the church organization, ministry to AIDS patients and has ruled against nuclear weapons and armed conflict.
"All my life, my own political, social and spiritual are moved together," said Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2002. "I could not separate them."
I 'Leontine Turpeau was born March 5, 1920, in Washington, DC, the seventh of eight children, and as a child moved with his family in Cincinnati. His father, the Rev. David DeWitt Turpeau Sr., was a Methodist Episcopal minister and four times member of the Ohio Legislature.
His mother, Ila, was African-American activist who co-founded the Urban League in Cincinnati. The family lived in a parish house, which was a station on the Underground Railroad where slaves fleeing the South stopped to rest.
Kelly enrolled in what is now West Virginia State University but left school to marry Gloster Bryant Current, a director who has worked for the NAACP and as assistant pastor at the United Methodist Church. They had three children before divorcing.
In 1956 she married James David Kelly, who was an ordained Methodist minister. He moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he was pastor and studied at the University Virginia Union University, where he graduated with a degree in 1960.
He taught high school history and social studies, and trained to become a lay preacher in the church.
When her husband died in 1969, Kelly has asked his congregation to take office. She hesitated, but after deciding that he had a vocation to become a minister, returned to school and earned a master's in divinity from what was then the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond.
He was ordained deacon in 1972 and an elder in 1977, led a United Methodist Church in Richmond for six years.
In 1983, Kelly moved in the direction of the Church, the service staff of the national board of discipleship of the United Methodist Church in Nashville.
A year later he was elected bishop, after several rounds of voting. Replaced Marjorie S. Matthews, the first woman bishop of the denomination, which was removed.
When asked if Jesus wanted his disciples in 1989, Kelly had an answer ready.
"We recognize the type of culture in which Jesus and his disciples lived," he told USA Today. "" It was a very macho culture. However, Jesus has violated the customs of the culture in the sense that he spoke with the women share with women. The women were part of the circle of Jesus Christ. God calls you call God. "
After retiring as bishop in 1988, Kelly has continued to speak at conferences and has taught at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.
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