The Henson Journals
Charles Henry Brent
Charles Brent (1862-1929), Canadian-born bishop in the American Episcopal Church; first missionary bishop to the Phillipine islands, 1902-18; involved in US government's efforts to control the opium trade in Asia; chaplain-general, US expeditionary forces, 1917-18; bishop of Western New York, 1919-29; prominent liberal protestant within the Anglican Communion, although his fervent display of Anglophilia during his visit to Britain in 1917 tempered his reputation for ecumenism and internationalism.
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