Norman S. Binsted

Norman Spencer Binsted (October 2, 1890 – February 20, 1961) was a Canadian-American missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, serving first in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai and later in the Philippines.

Styles of Norman S. Binsted
Religious style	The Right Reverend

He graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary and was ordained priest in Japan in 1916. He also attended Columbia University and the University of London. The Virginia Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary had awarded him honorary degrees.

He was Bishop of Tohoku from 1928 until 1940,[1] and was Bishop of the Philippines until his retirement in 1957.[2] He received from General Douglas McArthur, the Medal of Freedom for having assisted prisoners of war. He died in Hendersonville, North Carolina after an illness for several months. He was survived by his wife, Willie Mower Gibson Binsted.