William Ingraham Kip
| The Right Reverend William Ingraham Kip |
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| Bishop of California | |
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| Church |
The Episcopal Church 
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| Diocese | California |
| In office | 1857-1893 |
| Successor | William Ford Nichols |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | October 1835 |
| Consecration | 7 February 2002 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 3, 1811 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | April 7, 1893 (aged 81) San Francisco, California, United States |
| Buried | Cypress Lawn Memorial Park |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents | Leonard Kip and Maria Kip |
| Spouse | Maria Elizabeth Lawrence |
| Children | 2 |
William Ingraham Kip (October 3, 1811 – April 7, 1893) was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.
Kip was born in New York City, of Breton ancestry, the son of Leonard Kip and Maria (Ingraham) Kip. He graduated at Yale in 1831. After briefly studying law, Kip turned to a clerical calling and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1835. He was ordained deacon in June 1835 and ordained priest in October of the same year. That same year,
Kip became rector of St. Peter's Church in Morristown, New Jersey in 1835, moved to become assistant minister of Grace Church in New York City in 1836, and moved again to become rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church [1](Albany, New York) in Albany, where he remained from 1838 to 1853.
In 1853, Kip was chosen to be the missionary bishop to California. He was the 59th bishop in the ECUSA, and was consecrated by Bishops Jackson Kemper, Alfred Lee, and William Jones Boone. He arrived in California after a journey by steamship and transit of the Panamanian isthmus, which in those days could be a dangerous journey. Kip's brother, Leonard, had already moved to California during the Gold Rush, but returned to New York by the time Kip arrived in San Francisco. On arriving in San Francisco, Kip had only two congregations under his charge, but the Episcopal population soon began to grow as immigrants from the East streamed into California. When California became a diocese in its own right in 1856, Kip was elected as its first bishop. He continued to serve as Bishop of California until his death in 1893. His last act in office was the ordination of his grandson, William Ingraham Kip, III.
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