Religion: Big Tui

"My brain is revolving," cried Bishop Kinsolving.

"Heigh, ho, we'll blow the man down!"

Thus, at the University of Virginia, where most of them have gone, a famed, hearty family of U.S. churchmen is immortalized in a drinking song. During the past 100 years, nine of the Kinsolvings of Virginia have become Protestant Episcopal clergymen. Last week the family could boast its third bishop: the Rt. Rev. Arthur Barksdale ("Big Tui") Kinsolving II, 50, new bishop of Arizona.

Handsome Arthur Kinsolving was nicknamed "Tui" (Portuguese diminutive for Arthur) while his father, the Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was serving as first Episcopal Bishop...

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