About Anson Phelps Stokes
Lived 1905 – 1986 (aged 81). Anson Phelps Stokes was an American anglican priest.
Anson Phelps Stokes III (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 Jr. 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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American bishop (1905–1986)
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Anson Phelps Stokes was born on 11 January 1905 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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Anson Phelps Stokes died on 7 November 1986 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Anson Phelps Stokes was an anglican priest.
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Anson Phelps Stokes was American.
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