Lloyd Christ Wicke
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Lloyd Christ Wicke (1901–1996) was an American
The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church
, elected in 1948. When he died in 1996 he was the oldest of the 117 active and retired United Methodist Bishops at that time, as well as the last one elected during the decade of the 1940s.
Birth and family
Lloyd was born 22 May 1901 in
interred in the Waterville Cemetery
.
In 1979 Bishop Wicke married Eunice LeBourveau Ensley, the
sororities. She was a member of the North Broadway U.M. Church in Columbus, Ohio when she died 11 July 2002. She was survived by four children and their spouses: Frederick and Jean Ensley, Philip and Cynthia Ensley, Elizabeth and Roger Grime, and Charlotte and Robert Linville; by a stepdaughter, Elaine Wicke Cowen; and by eleven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A memorial service celebrating her life was held 18 July 2002 at the Westminster Thurber Retirement Community [1]
in Columbus.
Education
Lloyd earned the
The Theological School at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
.
Ordained ministry
Following
Jersey City District, 1941–43. Then he was appointed to the Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church in the Mt. Lebanon suburb of Pittsburgh
.
Episcopal ministry
The Rev. Dr. Lloyd Christ Wicke was elected to the
State of Vermont
.
Bishop Wicke served as
U.M. Church at different times during his episcopacy. He was the president of the Methodist Council of Bishops
, 1964–65.
Church merger
One of the highlights of Bishop Wicke's career was chairing the
merger with the Evangelical United Brethren Church (E.U.B.). During the uniting service in Dallas
, Wicke symbolically clasped hands with E.U.B. Bishop, Reuben H. Mueller, across a table bearing the Plan of Union. As they did, they prayerfully said together:
- Lord of the Church, we are united in Thee, in Thy Church and in the United Methodist Church.
This prayer was then repeated, in turn, by two
Nations
, who stood and joined hands as they voiced this same declaration.
Death
Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke died 29 December 1996 in
grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, four stepchildren
and eleven step-grandchildren.
See also
References
- ^ General Commission on Archives and History. "Bishops' Ordination Chain - GCAH". www.gcah.org. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
- Howell, Clinton T., Prominent Personalities in American Methodism, Birmingham, Alabama: The Lowry Press, 1945.
- Obituary, United Methodist News Service, 6 January 1997.[2]
- Mrs. Gertrude Wicke, Obituaries from the "Hamilton County News," 1978. [3]
- The Rev. Lloyd C. Wicke, Obituaries from the "Record Delta Newspaper," 1996 (published in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia). [4]
- Eunice Ensley Wicke, Obituaries, Boston University School of Theology Focus, Spring 2003 [5]