Anson Phelps Stokes (bishop) explained

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.

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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