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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Titus Lowe''' (17 December 1877 &ndash; November 1959<ref name="depauw">[http://www.depauw.edu/library/archives/methinventories/lowe_bishop_titus.htm Bishop Titus Lowe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923011804/http://www.depauw.edu/library/archives/methinventories/lowe_bishop_titus.htm |date=2006-09-23 }} at Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism</ref>) was an [[English-American]] [[Bishop]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] and [[The Methodist Church (USA)|The Methodist Church]], elected in 1924.<br />
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==Birth and family==<br />
Titus Lowe was born in [[Bilston]], [[England]], the son of William Henry and Anna (Scribbins) Lowe, and came to America in 1892, at the age of 14, with his mother and sisters Annie, Louisa, and Mary. His father and older brothers, Thomas and George, had come to America in 1890, where they lived in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] and worked in the area's [[steel]] mills. Lowe married Anna Bessie Creed (b. 1880) on October 18, 1901. They had two daughters, Madelyn Bessie Lowe and Evelyn Oldham Lowe, and a son who died in infancy. Anna died in 1911. Lowe married Edith Eglantine Egloff (b. 1876) on January 6, 1913 and had one daughter, Anna Jane Lowe, by that marriage. After Edith's death in 1955, Lowe married Ellen Louise Stoy (1890-1979) on January 8, 1957.<br />
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==Education==<br />
Lowe graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]], earning the [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in 1900 and the [[Master's degree|M.A.]] in 1908. He attended the [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary|Western Theological Seminary]] (now [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]]), 1900-02.<ref>{{cite book| editor = United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly| title = Minutes - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.| date = 1901 | location = Philadelphia| pages = 209| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8oFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA209| volume = 1| number = 1}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Sigma Chi]] fraternity. He also received several [[honorary doctorates]].<br />
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==Ordained Ministry and Missionary Service==<br />
The Rev. Titus Lowe entered the [[Pittsburgh]] [[Annual Conference]] of the M.E. Church in 1900. He was appointed [[Pastor]] of the Fourth Street Methodist Church, [[Braddock, Pennsylvania]], serving 1900-03. He then went as a [[Missionary]] to [[India]], pastoring the [[James Mills Thoburn|Thoburn]] [[Methodist Church]] in [[Calcutta, India|Calcutta]], 1903-08.<br />
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Lowe returned to the United States in 1908 and was appointed Pastor in [[South Fork, Pennsylvania]] (1908–09). Then he was appointed, in succession, to the First Methodist Churches of [[Cedar Falls, Iowa]] (1909–13) and [[Omaha, Nebraska]] (1913–21). In 1921 the Rev. Dr. Lowe was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church|M.E. Church]], serving in this position until elected to the [[Episcopacy]].<br />
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The Rev. Lowe also served as a [[Lecturer]] under the auspices of the International Committee of the [[YMCA]] in [[France]] during [[World War I]] (1917–18). He was elected a delegate to M.E. General Conferences (1916–24).<br />
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==Episcopal ministry==<br />
Lowe was elected to the episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the 1924 General Conference. He was assigned to the [[Singapore]] [[Episcopal area (United Methodist Church)|episcopal area]] (1924–28). He was then assigned to the [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] Episcopal Area (1928–39), and to the [[Indianapolis]] Episcopal Area of [[The Methodist Church (USA)|The Methodist Church]] in 1939. His offices were located at 305 Underwriters Bldg. in Indianapolis.<br />
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Bishop Lowe's accomplishments were many while Episcopal Leader in [[Indiana]]. Among these include being a [[charter member]] of the World Service Commission of the Methodist Church; serving as [[President (corporate title)|President]] of the Methodist Commission on Interdenominational Relations; as President of the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis, and as President of the Methodist ''Council of Bishops.''<br />
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==Honors==<br />
Rev. Lowe was honored with the [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] degree (1916) and the [[LL.D.]] degree (1926) by the [[Nebraska Wesleyan University]]. Ohio Wesleyan gave him the D.D. in 1920. The [[College of Puget Sound]] honored him with the [[L.H.D.]] in 1931.<br />
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Bishop Lowe was a [[33rd degree]] [[Freemasonry|Mason]]. He was also named a ''Significant Sig'' by the national Sigma Chi Fraternity.<br />
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==Retirement and Death==<br />
Lowe retired from the episcopacy in 1948, and was appointed Executive Secretary of the [[Methodist Commission on Overseas Relief]] for five years. He lived in Indianapolis until his death in November 1959.<ref name="depauw" /><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church]]<br />
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==References==<br />
* Howell, Clinton T., '''Prominent Personalities in American Methodism,''' Birmingham, Alabama: The Lowry Press, 1945.<br />
* '''Bishop Titus Lowe Papers,''' M997.004, M999.025, Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism, ''Archives and Special Collections,'' DePauw University Libraries. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030626222754/http://www.depauw.edu/library/archives/methinventories/lowe_bishop_titus.htm]<br />
* Genealogical information about Titus Lowe from '''rootsweb.com''' (accessed 5 February 2007)[http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/LOWE/2000-05/0957604397]<br />
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