McElwain was ordained deacon on June 11, 1902, and priest on February 6, 1903, by Bishop Edward Robert Atwill. He then ministered in Missouri between 1902 and 1905. In 1905, he became an instructor in the Old and New Testament at the Seabury Divinity School, while in 1907, he was elected warden of the school.
Bishop
McElwain was elected Suffragan Bishop of Minnesota in 1912, and was consecrated in the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour on October 30, 1912.[2] He was elected diocesan bishop on May 23, 1917, and served as diocesan bishop from 1917 until 1943. McElwain also served as dean of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and was the author of The Permanent Element in Old Testament Prophecy.[3]
References
^"Bishop McElwain, 81, of Minnesota Dies". The New York Times. September 20, 1957. p. 23. The Right Rev. Frank Arthur McElwain, retired Bishop of the Minnesota diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died today at Lexington, N.C., where he had lived the last three years.
^"Bishop McElwain Honored". The Living Church. 107 (20): 6โ7. November 14, 1943.