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- Anson Phelps Stokes, the 3rd (January 11, 1905 - November 7, 1986) was the eleventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1970.
He was the son of Anson Phelps Stokes and grandson of Anson Phelps Stokes of Phelps Dodge. An alumnus of St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), he received a BA from Yale in 1927, a BD from the Episcopal Theological School (now the Episcopal Divinity School), a DD from Kenyon College and later degrees from Columbia, Berkeley Divinity School, and Suffolk University. He was ordained deacon in 1932 and priest on March 19, 1933 in St Mark's Church, Shreveport, Louisiana.
He was married to Hope Procter of the family which founded Procter & Gamble.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Phelps_Stokes_(bishop)
- Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the retired Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, died after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Bishop Stokes was an early opponent of the Vietnam War and a leader in civil rights activities and the ecumenical movement in the state.
In 1965, he declined an award from the American Legion because it had canceled a similiar award to Rabbi Roland Gittelshon, a sponsor of a Washington demonstration protesting American policy in Vietnam.
He retired in 1970 after 14 years as head of the diocese of 200 churches.
Bishop Stokes liked to describe his role as ''relator-bishop,'' declaring, ''The bishop must, through the diocesan life, be a relator of men to each other.''
He served as chairman of the Massachusetts Council of Churches' Commission on Church and Race, formed in 1960 to help bring about ''the reconciliation of all races.''
Surviving are his wife, the former Hope Procter; two daughters, Carol Fremont-Smith, of Auburn, Me., and Mary Stokes of Stockbridge, Mass.; a brother, Isaac Stokes of Underhill, Vt.; and two grandchildren.
Services will be at 2:30 P.M. Monday at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral here.
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