Charles Clifton Penick (December 9, 1843 – April 13, 1914) was third
missionary bishop of
Cape Palmas
Cape Palmas is a headland on the extreme southeast end of the coast of Liberia, Africa, at the extreme southwest corner of the northern half of the continent. The Cape itself consists of a small, rocky peninsula connected to the mainland by a san ...
, Africa, and Parts Adjacent from 1877 to 1883. He attended
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He studied divinity at the
Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, graduating in 1869. He was consecrated as a bishop at the Church of the Messiah,
Baltimore
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, on February 13, 1877.
Bibliography
More than a Prophet(New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1881)
References
Obituary in ''The Living Church'', April 25, 1914
External links
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1831 births
1914 deaths
Bishops of the Episcopal Church (United States)
19th-century American Episcopalians
Anglican bishops of Liberia
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