Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Honorific-Suffix: | D.D. |
Anson Phelps Stokes III | |
Bishop of Massachusetts | |
Church: | Episcopal Church |
See: | Massachusetts |
Term: | 1956–1970 |
Predecessor: | Norman Burdett Nash |
Successor: | John Melville Burgess |
Ordination: | March 19, 1933 |
Ordained By: | James Craik Morris |
Consecration: | December 4, 1954 |
Consecrated By: | Henry Knox Sherrill |
Birth Date: | January 11, 1905 |
Birth Place: | New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
Death Date: | November 7, 1986 (aged 81) |
Religion: | Anglican |
Parents: | Anson Phelps Stokes and Caroline Green Mitchell |
Spouse: | Hope Procter |
Children: | 2 |
Previous Post: | 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.
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.