Kelly, Leontine T. C. (Leontine Turpeau Current)

LC control no.	n 93093092
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kelly, Leontine T. C. (Leontine Turpeau Current) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Turpeau, Leontine
Associated country	United States
Located	Cincinnati (Ohio) Institute (W. Va.) Richmond (Va.) San Francisco (Calif.) San Mateo (Calif.)
Birth date	1920-03-05
Death date	2012-06-28
Place of birth	Washington (D.C.)
Place of death	Oakland (Calif.)
Affiliation	West Virginia State College Virginia Union University (Richmond, Va.) Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Profession or occupation	Ministers (Clergy) Civil rights workers Teachers
Found in	Carter, N.A. Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, c1993: t.p. (Leontine T.C. Kelly) p. 153 (Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly; ordained minister of the United Methodist Church) Wikipedia WWW site, July 3, 2012 (Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly; b. Mar. 5, 1920, Washington, D.C., to David D. Turpeau, Sr. and Ila Marshall Turpeau; m. Gloster B. Current (div.), the Rev. Dr. James David Kelly; d. June 28, 2012, Oakland, Calif.; bishop of the United Methodist Church) African American women, 1993: pages 305-306 (Leontine (Turpeau, Current) Kelly; the first woman of African-American descent to be elected to the episcopacy of the United Methodist Church (1983). Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio where she helped organize the NAACP and Urban League chapters. Attended West Virginia State College until her marriage, which ended in divorce 15 years later. After marrying a second time, she returned to school and graduated from Virginia Union in 1960. Became a social studies teacher and a lay speaker in the church. Entered the ordained ministry in 1970 and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. in 1976. Until her retirement in 1988 she served as bishop of the San Francisco area and lived in San Mateo, Calif.)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	no 98031977