The Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent D.D., LL.D. | |
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4th Bishop of Western New York | |
Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Western New York |
Elected | January 18, 1918 |
In office | 1919–1929 |
Predecessor | William D. Walker |
Successor | David L. Ferris |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of the Missionary District of the Philippine Islands (1901–1918) |
Orders | |
Ordination | March 6, 1887 by Arthur Sweatman |
Consecration | December 19, 1901 by William Croswell Doane |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | March 27, 1929 Lausanne, Switzerland | (aged 66)
Buried | Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery |
Nationality | Born Canadian Naturalized American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Henry Brent & Sophia Frances Cummings |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Toronto |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | The Episcopal Church's Liturgical Calendar commemorates Brent on March 27.[1] The Anglican Church of Canada commemorates Brent on March 27 as "Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippines, and of Western New York, 1929."[2] |
Charles Henry Brent (April 9, 1862 – March 27, 1929) was the Episcopal Church's first Missionary Bishop of the Philippine Islands (1902–1918); Chaplain General of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I (1917–1918); and Bishop of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Western New York (1918–1929).[3] The historian and Episcopal minister Frederick Ward Kates characterised him as a "gallant, daring, and consecrated soldier and servant of Christ" who was "one of modern Christendom's foremost leaders, prophets, and seers."[4]