Sidney Catlin Partridge
Sidney Catlin Partridge was the first Bishop of Kyoto and the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.
He was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale in 1880, where he served on the eighth editorial board of The Yale Record and was a member of Skull and Bones.
After completing his graduate studies at Berkeley Divinity School in 1884, John Williams, Bishop of Connecticut, ordained him to the diaconate on June 4, 1884. He then worked as a missionary in China under Bishop William Jones Boone, Jr..
He was consecrated first Bishop of Kyoto on February 2, 1900 in Trinity Cathedral, Tokyo. Other bishops in attendance included
He was decorated as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog following his marriage to the daughter of the Danish consul general at San Francisco on November 27, 1901.
He was a bishop associate of the American Branch of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.
On June 12, 1928, Rev. Partridge offered the invocation at the opening of the 1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City.
He died in Kansas City, Missouri.
