Henry Knox Sherrill
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The Most Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill |
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| 20th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| In office | 1947-1958 |
| Predecessor | Henry St. George Tucker |
| Successor | Arthur C. Lichtenberger |
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| Ordination | 9 May 1915 |
| Consecration | 14 October 1930 |
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November 6, 1890 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Died | May 11, 1980 (aged 89) Boxford, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Previous post | Bishop of Massachusetts (1930-1947) |
Henry Knox Sherrill (November 6, 1890 – May 11, 1980) was an Episcopal clergyman. He was the 20th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947 to 1958, having previously served as Bishop of Massachusetts (1930-1947).
Henry Knox Sherrill was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry Williams and Maria (Prue) Knox Mills Sherrill. His father died when he was ten-years-old, and his mother raised him to be religiously observant. He graduated from Brooklyn's Polytechnic Preparatory School in 1906, after which he attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, for a year. At age sixteen, he entered Yale College, from where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911. While a student at Yale, he taught Sunday school at St. Paul's Church in New Haven and experienced a call to the ordained ministry. One of his greatest mentors at Yale was Henry Sloane Coffin, a Presbyterian theologian and educator. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1914. Sherrill was ordained to the diaconate on June 7, 1914, and to the priesthood on May 9, 1915. He then served as an assistant minister at Trinity Church in Boston until 1917, when he became a Red Cross chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital. He later became an Army chaplain, with the rank of First Lieutenant, at Base Hospital 6 in Talence, France.
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