Charles Bennison
| The Right Reverend Charles Ellsworth Bennison, Jr. |
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| Bishop of Pennsylvania | |
| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania |
| In office | 1998 — 2012 |
| Predecessor | Allen Lyman Bartlett, Jr. |
| Successor | Clifton D. Daniel, 3d, provisional bishop |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1969 |
| Consecration | 1997 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 30, 1943 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Previous post | Rector, St Luke's, Atlanta, Georgia |
Charles Ellsworth Bennison, Jr. (born November 30, 1943) is an American bishop. He was the 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Bennison was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 30, 1943, and was baptized at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Hastings, Minnesota, on December 24, 1943. His father, Charles E. Bennison, Sr., was also a priest who went on to become the Bishop of Western Michigan.
Bennison received a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1965. In 1965-66, he studied at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and then attended Harvard Divinity School, where he received a B.D. degree in 1968 and a Th.M. degree in 1970. He earned his M.A. degree from the Claremont Graduate School in 1977, and a S.T.M. degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1992. He was honored with a D.Div. degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1997.
Benninson married Joan Kathryn Reahard; they have two daughters, Sarah and Kathryn.
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