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Description:Text transcribed from caption: #847 CHAPLAINCY LEADERS CONFER IN WASHINGTON Four of the leading chaplain figures in the country conferred in Washington on plans to maintain an adequate peacetime Protestant chaplaincy. (Left to Right) Rear Admiral William N. Thomas, Chief of Navy Chaplains; Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts, Chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains; Brig. Gen. Luther D. Miller, Chief of Chaplains of U.S. Army; and Bishop Edwin Lee, director of the General Commission. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LDF-WA-LM-10235)Creator:Ferras. (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Thomas, William Nathaniel, 1892-1971., United States. Navy. Chaplain Corps., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains., Episcopal Church--Bishops., Episcopal Church. Diocese of Massachusetts., Miller, Luther D., United States. Army. Chaplain Corps., Lee, Edwin Ferdinand., Methodist Church (U.S.)--Bishops.Topics:Chaplains--Washington (D.C.), Clergy conferences--Washington (D.C.), Congresses and conventions--Washington (D.C.), Military chaplains--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358866
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Description:Former Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of the Episcopal Church (second from left) lays the cornerstone for a new $1.5 million library-classroom at the Episcopal Theological School.Creator:Dowd, John C. (photographer), PR Associates (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). Library., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Coolidge, William Appleton., Macomber, George., Garfield, James., Coburn, John B.Topics:Cornerstone laying--Massachusetts--Cambridge.Geographic subjects:Cambridge (Mass.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:151371
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Creator:Dowd, John C. (author), PR Associates (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). Library., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Coolidge, William Appleton., Macomber, George., Garfield, James., Coburn, John B.Topics:Cornerstone laying--Massachusetts--Cambridge.Geographic subjects:Cambridge (Mass.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150715
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Description:Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of the Protestant Episcopal Church plants the "Presiding Bishop's Tree" in Honolulu.Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Episcopal Church--Hawaii--Honolulu., Episcopal Church--Bishops--Hawaii--Honolulu., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980.Topics:Tree planting--Hawaii--Honolulu., Rites and ceremonies--Hawaii--Honolulu.Geographic subjects:Honolulu (Hawaii)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:148541
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Description:Moscow--American church leaders visit the Tretiakov Gallery here during their ten-day stay in the Soviet Union. Shown in front row are, left to right: Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., a member of the National Council's general board; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee; and Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America.Creator:Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)Subject names:Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.Geographic subjects:Soviet Union.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11060
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Description:Moscow--Seven of nine American Protestant leaders on a ten-day visit to Moscow go sight-seeing in Red Square accompanied by a Russian Orthodox churchman and two interpreters. Left to right are: Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J., an attorney; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Franklin C. Fry of New York, President of the United Lutheran Church in America; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; an unidentified interpreter; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, president of the National Council; Archimandrite Pemin of the Russian Orthodox Church; unidentified interpreter; Dr. Hubert Gezork of Newton Center, Mass., president of Andover Newtown Theological Seminary; and Paul B. Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee. The visit was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of the Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian church.Creator:Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.Geographic subjects:Soviet Union.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11058
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Title:Description:These nine American Protestant leaders left here March 9 to visit Moscow where they will hold talks with Christian leaders there. Their 10-day trip marks the first phase of a two-way visit that will bring Russian churchmen to this country next June as guests of the National Council of Churches. Shown left to right are: front row, Bishop D. Ward Nichols of New York, head of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's First Episcopal District; the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal District; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church USA and president of the National Council; and Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J. (Methodist), an attorney and member of the National Council's General Board. In rear: Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. (Methodist), executive director of the National Council's Department of International Affairs; Dr. Herbet Gezork of Newton Center, Mass. (Baptist), president of Andover Newton Theological Seminary; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York (Presbyterian), the National Council's associate general secretary; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; and Paul B. Anderson of New York (Congregational Christian), secretary of the YMCA International Committee.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (photographer)Subject names:Blake, Eugene Carson, Nichols, D. Ward (Decatur Ward), 1900-, Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.Topics:Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.Geographic subjects:Soviet Union.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11056
