Charles Lewis Slattery

The Right Reverend Charles Lewis Slattery D.D.
Bishop of Massachusetts
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Massachusetts
Elected	June 1, 1927
In office	1927-1930
Predecessor	William Lawrence
Successor	Henry Knox Sherrill
Orders
Ordination	June 8, 1895 by William Lawrence
Consecration	October 31, 1922 by William Lawrence
Personal details
Born	(1867-12-09)December 9, 1867 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	March 12, 1930(1930-03-12) (aged 62) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Buried	Mount Auburn Cemetery[1]
Nationality	American
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	George S. L. Slattery & Emma M. Hall
Spouse	Sarah Lawrence (1923-1930)
Previous post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of Massachusetts (1922-1927)
Alma mater	Harvard University

Charles Lewis Slattery (December 9, 1867 – March 12, 1930) was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and a prominent writer in the early twentieth century.

Biography[]

He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Reverend George Sidney Leffingwell and Emma McClellan Slattery. Slattery was educated at Harvard University (1887-1891) and the former Episcopal Theological School (1891-1894) at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1894 and to the priesthood in 1895. He served as dean of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minnesota from 1896-1907; rector of Christ Church, Springfield, Massachusetts (1907-1910); and rector of Grace Church, New York (1910-1922).

Slattery was Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1922 to 1927, and diocesan bishop from 1927-1930. A prolific author, he received honorary doctoral degrees from the Episcopal Theological School, the University of the South at Sewanee, Trinity College, Hartford, and Harvard University.

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• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury