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The Ecumenical Thought of Bishop Charles Henry Brent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Eugene C. Bianchi S.J.
Eugene C. Bianchi S.J.
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Episcopalian Bishop Charles Henry Brent was one of the outstanding pioneers in the modern ecumenical movement. His career as an international figure began in 1901 with an appointment at the age of 39 to be first missionary bishop of the Philippine Islands. From this mission vantage point his influence extended around the world. In 1909 President Taft chose him to be President of the First International Opium Commission in Shanghai. During the last year of the First World War he served as Senior Headquarters Chaplain to the American Expeditionary Forces. But Brent' greatest achievement was to be in the realm of church unity. He founded and inspired the Faith and Order movement, and presided over its First World Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland in 1927.

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Church History , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 1964 , pp. 448 - 461
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1964

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