George Kelly Dunlop

Dunlop was born on November 19, 1830, in County Tyrone, Ireland, son of Robert Dunlop and Margret Kelly, both of whom were of Scottish descent. He studied at the Royal School Dungannon and later at Queen's University of Ireland, from where he graduated in 1852. He arrived in the United States in October 1852. He was awarded a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Racine College in 1880.

Dunlop was ordained deacon on December 4, 1854, in Palmyra, Missouri, and later priest on August 7, 1856, in St John's Church in St. Louis, Missouri, both by Bishop Cicero Stephens Hawks of Missouri. He served as missionary deacon in St. Charles, Missouri, between 1854 and 1856. Later he became rector of Christ Church in Lexington, Missouri, and in 1864 rector of Grace Church in Kirkwood, Missouri, till 1880. He also served as dean of the St Louis Convocation of the Diocese of Missouri and deputy to the General Convention of 1871, 1877 and 1880.

Dunlop was elected Missionary Bishop of Arizona and New Mexico in 1880 and consecrated on November 21, 1880, by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota in Christ Church, St. Louis. He assumed his duties on March 21, 1881. He died in office due to pneumonia on March 12, 1888.

Dunlop married Mary Wickham Cobb on July 23, 1857, and had seven children.

• Episcopal Diocese of Arizona
• Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande

• George Kelly Dunlop at Find a Grave
• The Living Church Annual 1886