Isaac Wilson Joyce
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Isaac Wilson Joyce
Isaac Wilson Joyce (11 October 1836 – 28 July 1905) was an American bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1888.
He was born in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio on 11 October 1836. He became a Member of the Northwest Indiana Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1859, being ordained a deacon by Bishop Matthew Simpson, and an elder by Bishop Thomas Asbury Morris.
Prior to his election to the episcopacy, Joyce served as a pastor, a , and was in educational work. He was elected the same year as fellow-Ohioan Bishop James Mills Thoburn.
Bishop Joyce died on 28 July 1905 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery of that city.
References[]
- Methodism: Ohio Area (1812-1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt.D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962).
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Categories:
- People from Hamilton County, Ohio
- American Methodist bishops
- Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- 1836 births
- 1905 deaths
- Burials at Lakewood Cemetery
- 19th-century American clergy
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