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 Oak Ridge High School Class of 1966 - Latest News 06-15-2010 - Harry Bainbridge brother of Sally Bainbridge Akridge, Bishop of Idaho Share:ShareThis Print Comment Back Home Rev. Harry B. Bainbridge III Grew up in Oak Ridge Posted Jun 03, 2010 @ 08:35 PM EASTON, Md. — The Right Rev. Harry B. Bainbridge III, retired Diocesan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, died May 27, 2010, at the Talbot Hospice in Easton after a long battle with cancer. He was 71 years old. He was born in Knoxville and raised in Oak Ridge, where he graduated from Oak Ridge High School (Class of 1957) and attended St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, where he was ordained to the Deaconate. Bainbridge later graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., before joining the U.S. Navy. After Officer Candidate School, Bainbridge was the communications officer aboard the USS Norfolk. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he relayed official communications directly from Robert Kennedy at the White House to an interpreter to verify the nuclear missiles aboard the Soviet warship in Guantanamo Bay. Bainbridge became a priest in 1967 after graduating from St. Luke's School of Theology in Sewanee. Throughout his 40 years of ministry, he served as rector of churches in Memphis, Fayetteville, and Knoxville, Tenn., Monroe, La., and Easton, Md., before being elected the 12th Bishop of Idaho in 1998, serving until 2008. While bishop, he served as president of Province VIII, which includes 17 dioceses and over 900 parishes, stretching west from Arizona to Hawaii and Taiwan. In this role, he served on the Presiding Bishop's Council of advice and on the Standing Commission of Stewardship and Development. In 2002, Bainbridge was chosen as the chairman of Episcopal Relief and Development. During this time, he led the board's transition from primarily relief efforts to expand and include both relief and development. Some of the notable efforts during his tenure include relief work in Thailand after the tsunami, the Nets for Life program to eradicate malaria in Africa, as well as community development projects in Honduras and El Salvador. Throughout his ministry, Bishop Bainbridge sought to bring conciliation within the Episcopal Church -- attempting to bring people together to solve religious and social problems. He made a chief focus of "Empowering the ministry of the baptized," seeking to get all baptized people involved in acting as "the hands and hearts of Jesus in the world." As Bishop, when Eugene Robinson was chosen Bishop of New Hampshire, the first openly-gay Bishop in the Episcopal Church, Bainbridge worked for reconciliation within the Anglican Communion by meeting with African bishops and conservatives in the American church. Bainbridge was also a member of various community boards, including The Talbot Hospice Foundation in Easton, Md., the St. Lukes' Regional Medical System in Boise, Idaho, and chairman of the St. Luke's School of Theology Visitors' Committee in Sewanee. For fun and recreation Bainbridge enjoyed several interests. He played the French horn in the high school band and the Oak Ridge Symphony as an adolescent and sang with several chorales. He nurtured his love for soccer by refereeing high school soccer in Easton. Over the years, Bainbridge and his family also took many sailing excursions in the Chesapeake, the Nantucket Sound, and the Caribbean. He is survived by his mother, Grace Bainbridge Holt of Easton, Md.; his wife, Katherine Bainbridge, currently of Charles Town, W.Va.; one son, Harry Bainbridge of Washington, D.C.; one daughter, Elizabeth Bainbridge of San Francisco, Calif.; two sisters, Sally Akridge of Oxford, Md., and Betsy Bainbridge of Harpers Ferry, W.Va.; two stepbrothers, Robert Holt of Clayton, Ga., and Philip Holt of Jackson, Miss.; one stepsister, Suzanne Lindholm of Midlothian, Va.; and three grandchildren. Bishop Bainbridge will be cremated. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, June 14, 2010, at Christ Church in Easton, Md. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that any donations be made to Episcopal Relief and Development (www.er-d.org) or the Talbot Hospice Foundation (www.talbothospice.org).  Return to Latest News |
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