He also served for 36 years as rector of Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church, overseeing its move from its historic building in Baltimore to Catonsville, Maryland.
[1] In 1960, Cox was called as rector of Bishop Cummins Memorial Church, which was in the process of relocating its longtime West Baltimore location—which would later be listed in the National Register of Historic Places—to Catonsville.
[1] He worked alongside then Baltimore City Councilman William Donald Schaefer, who was a longtime member, vestryman and treasurer at Cummins Memorial Church,[2] to facilitate the move.
[1] On November 3, 1983, Cox and Royal U. Grote were elected assistant bishops in the New York and Philadelphia Synod, the predecessor institution to the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
In retirement, Cox continued to serve part-time in ministry and was interim rector of St. Stephen’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Eldersburg, Maryland, in the late 1990s.