Henry Knox Sherrill project : oral history, 1980-1984.

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Henry Knox Sherrill project : oral history, 1980-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122361978

A group of interviews with friends, family and colleagues of Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, centering on his term as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, 1947-1958. The memoirs contain much information on the changes and growth of one denomination during a critical period. Bishop Sherrill's leadership of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America and the World Council of Churches provides a broad view of national and world-wide ecumenical development. Participants and pagination: Allie B. Ault, 27; John B. Bentley, 44; George L. Blackman, 46; Eugene Carson Blake, 43; Roger W. Blanchard, 61; W. Nelson Bump, 31; John D. Coburn, 28; William A. Coolidge, 26; Matthew Costigan, 80; John Crocker, 35; David C. Crockett, 47; Lewis A. DeBlois, Jr., 44; Edmond duPont, 40; John V. Herd, 16; Henry W. Hobson, 39; David R. Hunter, 63; Dana F. Kennedy, 65; Harry S. Kennedy, 25; Frederic C. Lawrence, 31; George W. R. MacCray, 76; Rebecca S. More, 95; Henry S. Noble, 21; Claude L. Pickens, Jr., 39; Nathan M. Pusey, 19; John W. Reinhardt, 84; Lawrence Rose, 34; Francis B. Sayre, Jr., 18; Margaret Sherman, 64; Barbara Sherrill, 125; Edmund K. Sherrill, 84; F. Goldthwaite Sherrill, 187; Henry W. Sherrill, 97; Helen Sparrow, 35; Helen B. Turnbull, 34; Arthur E. Walmsley, 25; Mildred R. Weatherbee, 45; Cynthia Wedel, 43; Barbara Prue Sherrill Wilson, 81; Mason Wilson, Jr., 43.

Transcripts: 2,040 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Henry Knox Sherrill was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 6, 1890. He was educated at Yale and Episcopal Theological School. He served as an Episcopal clergyman in Massachusetts from 1914-1930. He was elected Bishop of Massachusetts in 1930, serving until 1946. He was Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947-1958. He held the office of President of the National Council of Churches from 1950-1952, and of the World Council of Churches from 1954-1961. He died on May 11, 1980. ...

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