Mar 27, 2016
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Bishop Brent in the Philippines and beyond
In the fall of 1901, the Episcopal Church named Charles Brent as its founding bishop in the Philippines, charged with organizing a new diocese in the archipelago.
A protégé of Phillips Brooks, Brent had already done impressive work in the slums of Boston, first with a black congregation in the West End and then in Irish and Jewish neighborhoods in the South End. Like many contemporaries, he…
