Charles Sumner Burch (June 30, 1855 – December 20, 1920) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman who served as Bishop of New York from 1919 till his death in 1920.

Biography

He was graduated from the

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, and entered the publishing business in

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. From 1897 to 1905 he was editor of the '' Grand Rapids'

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''. He had taken deacon's orders in 1895 and was ordained priest in 1905. He was ordained to the Diaconate in 1895 by Bishop McLaren, and to the Priesthood in 1905 by Bishop Greer. After being

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of Saint Andrew's,

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, for six years he was consecrated

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of New York in 1911. He succeeded

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as Bishop of the

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