David B. Joslin

David Bruce Joslin (January 8, 1936 - October 25, 2023) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1992 to 2000.

Biography Joslin was born in Collingswood, New Jersey, son of a Methodist minister and his wife, and raised in Linwood, New Jersey. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Drew University in 1958 and then a Master of Divinity from the same university in 1961. He became an Associate in Anglican Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School in 1963, after joining the Episcopal Church. In 1965, Joslin was ordained a transitional deacon and, later that year, a priest in the Episcopal Church.

In 1980, he published a book about the episcopacy.

On June 8, 1991, at the age of 55, he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Central New York at their annual convention. He succeeded the Rt. Rev. O'Kelley Whitaker, who was set to retire at the beginning of 1992.

Almost immediately upon his consecration, Joslin had to accept the resignation of a high-ranking priest after a sex scandal in October 1992, which made national news; the priest, married to a woman, had engaged in affairs with young men.

In 2000, he was appointed "Provisional Bishop" by Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold "to assist dioceses in transition from one bishop to another .... in the Dioceses of New Jersey and Long Island." He led in the Diocese of Long Island in between when Bishop Orris Walker Jr. left and Lawrence Provenzano took over, between June and November 2009. As an "assisting bishop", Joslin was a consecrator of Provenzano in 2009.

In 2004, Joslin retired and returned to Westerly, to serve as an Assisting Bishop, and later, Bishop-in-residence. When that cathedral held its last religious services in April 2012, Joslin was quoted as saying, "We tried to make it upbeat, with the music and so forth. And it was during the Easter season." He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Berkeley Divinity School in 2017.

Personal life and Death Joslin was first married to Kathrine (sic.) who died after a long illness. He married, secondly, in 2017 to Missy Bennett, "whom he had known for many years through her church work."