Edmund Knox Sherrill

Edmund Knox Sherrill (died 2016)[1] was a missionary bishop in The Episcopal Church who served in Brazil.[2] He studied at Episcopal Theological School after serving in the U.S. Army for two years during World War II and graduating from Yale College.[3] He was ordained a bishop on 25 January 1959 in Rio de Janeiro, with his father, retired Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, serving as chief consecrator.[4] As bishop of Central Brazil, which covered most of the country,[5] he served until his retirement in 1984.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ "In Memorium". Milton Magazine: 83. October 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Johnson, Sherman (November 9, 1958). "The Painless Sell". The Living Church. 137 (19): 10.
  3. ↑ "ELISABETH BOWKER ENGAGED TO MARRY". New York Times. November 21, 1948. p. 81.
  4. ↑ "Consecrated Bishop". Hawaiian Church Chronicle. 49: 7. March 1959.
  5. ↑ Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho Filho, J. Neil Alexander (2019). "A Práticada Confirmação entre Anglicanos Brasileiros: incoerências e desafios (The Practice of Confirmation among Brazilian Anglicans: incoherencies and challenges)". Estudos Teológicos: 531.
  6. ↑ Rafael Vilaca Epifani Costa (Autumn 2020). "The Online Council of the Diocese of Recife in 2020: New Ways of Church in Time of Crisis". Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal. 4.3: 79.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.