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'''Clement Daniel Rockey''' (4 September 1889 – 15 August 1975) was a [[bishop]] of the [[Methodist Church]], elected in 1941.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
He was born in [[Cawnpore]], [[India]], a son of the Noble Lee Rockey, an [[United States|American]] [[missionary]] [[Settler|pioneer]] in India. Clement entered the North India [[Annual Conference]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] in 1914. Prior to his election to the [[episcopacy]], he served as a missionary, an [[educator]], and a district superintendent. For some years he was [[chaplain]] to [[United Kingdom|British]] Methodist troops in [[Bareilly]]. He was elected bishop by the Methodist Central Conference of Southern [[Asia]]. He returned to the United States and lived out his life in Eugene, Oregon.<br />
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He was married to author [[Helen Cady Rockey]]. He was the father of three children, Kenneth Rockey, Harold Rockey and Lee Rockey, and had ten grandchildren.<br />
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==Selected writings==<br />
*A good number of pamphlets. ''"He has written for children and young people in [[Urdu]], including stories, Sunday School lessons and village worship programs."''<br />
*''Making and Telling Bible Stories,'' also Roman-Urdu, Kahani ka Banana aur Sunana, 1923.<br />
*''52 Lessons on Christian Life and Practice,'' Masihi Zindagi aur Usul, 1926.<br />
*Book of Worship for village work, 1935.<br />
*Pamphlet, ''Come and Let Us Worship,'' 1945.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[List of bishops of the United Methodist Church]]<br />
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==References==<br />
*Leete, Frederick DeLand, '''Methodist Bishops.''' Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.<br />
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