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Rhinelander (PHILIP MERCER an American)

PHILIP MERCER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born at Newport, R. I., in 1869. He was educated at Harvard and Oxford universities and became a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1896, and a priest in 1897. After some. years of active parish work in Washington, D. C., he became professor of ecclesiastical history, homiletics, and Christian evidences at Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., in 1903, and professor of history of religion and missions at the Episcopal RHINOCEROS Theological School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1907. In 1911, he was consecrated coadjutor bishop of Pennsylvania, becoming bishop of the same diocese in November PHILIP MERCER RHINELANDER of that year. He received honorary de grees from the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia Divinity School, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania .