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Lewis Bliss Whittemore

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On May 1, 1936, Whittemore was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Western Michigan, and then succeeded as diocesan bishop on November 1, 1937. Whittemore retired in 1953, and died on December 5, 1965, in
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The Care of All the Churches: The Background, Work, and Opportunity of the American Episcopate
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Whittemore was ordained deacon in May 1915, and priest in May 1916 by Bishop
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of Massachusetts. He served as assistant at Christ Church in
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in 1907, after which he became a supervising teacher in the
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Michigan, A Centennial History of the State and Its People
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William Emmons Whittemore & Mary Bliss Robinson
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Bishop of Western Michigan
Episcopal Church
Western Michigan
John N. McCormick
Dudley B. McNeil
William Lawrence
James De Wolf Perry
Hartford, Connecticut
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Anglican
Alma mater
Yale College
Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan
Hartford, Connecticut
Yale College
Bachelor of Arts
Philippines
United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Divinity
William Lawrence
New York City
Pittsburgh
Calvary Church
Trinity Church
Detroit
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
"Lewis Bliss Whittemore"
"Lewis Bliss Whittemore"

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