Charles Sumner Burch
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Charles Sumner Burch (1854, Pinckney, Michigan – 1920, New York City) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman.
He was graduated from the University of Michigan, and entered the publishing business in Chicago. From 1897 to 1905 he was editor of the Grand Rapids' Evening Press. He had taken deacon's orders in 1895 and was ordained priest in 1905.
After being rector of Saint Andrew's, Staten Island, New York City, for six years he was consecrated suffragan bishop of New York in 1911. He succeeded David Hummell Greer as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
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- Sermon in Memory of the Right Reverend Charles Sumner Burch, D. D., LL. D. Ninth Bishop of New York Preached in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at the Opening Service of the Special Convention of the Diocese of New York on Wednesday, January 26, 1921. By Arthur Selden Lloyd (1921)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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