Anson Phelps Stokes (bishop)

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Anson Phelps Stokes III

D.D.
Bishop of Massachusetts
Church Episcopal Church
See Massachusetts
In office1956–1970
Predecessor Norman Burdett Nash
Successor John Melville Burgess
Orders
OrdinationMarch 19, 1933
by  James Craik Morris
ConsecrationDecember 4, 1954
by  Henry Knox Sherrill
Personal details
BornJanuary 11, 1905
DiedNovember 7, 1986 (aged 81)
Brookline, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Denomination Anglican
ParentsAnson Phelps Stokes & Caroline Green Mitchell
SpouseHope Procter
Children2
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Massachusetts (1954-1956)
Education Yale University
Episcopal Divinity School
Kenyon College

Anson Phelps Stokes, the 3rd (January 11, 1905 - November 7, 1986) was the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1970.

Biography

He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and grandson of Anson Phelps Stokes of Phelps Dodge. An alumnus of St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), he received a BA from Yale in 1927, a BD from the Episcopal Theological School (now the Episcopal Divinity School), a DD from Kenyon College and later degrees from Columbia, Berkeley Divinity School, and Suffolk University. He was ordained deacon in 1932 and priest on March 19, 1933 in St Mark's Church, Shreveport, Louisiana.

He was married to Hope Procter of the family which founded Procter & Gamble.

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References

Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by Bishop of Massachusetts
19561970
Succeeded by