Philip Frederick McNairy (March 19, 1911December 8, 1989) was the sixth
Diocesan Bishop of
Minnesota in
The Episcopal Church
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.
Biography
Philip Frederick McNairy was born in 1911 in
Lake City, Minnesota, to Harry Doughty McNairy and Clara Christina Moseman. He attended
Kenyon College where he was a member of
Sigma Pi
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fraternity and attended seminary at
Bexley Hall
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. He married Cary Elizabeth Fleming in November 1935 and they had three children.
McNairy was ordained a Deacon in May 1934 and a Priest in April 1935. He began his active ministry at St. Andrew's Mission in
Columbus, Ohio
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. He subsequently became rector of St. Stephen's in
Cincinnati, and in 1940 went to
St. Paul, Minnesota
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as rector of Christ Church. During his decade in St. Paul he was active as: president of University House Corporation, the directing body for Episcopal work on the campus at the
University of Minnesota; president of the Council of Social Agencies and the St. Paul Council of Human Relations; and chairman of the department of Christian education in the diocese.
In 1950 he became Dean of
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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in
Buffalo, New York. While in Buffalo he gave a series of radio addresses. Some of these addresses he used as the foundation for his book ''Family Story'' which was published in 1960.
He served as Suffragan Bishop of Minnesota from 1958-1968, Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota from 1968-1970. He was elected Bishop of Minnesota in 1971 and served until his retirement in 1978. He died on December 8, 1989, in the Metropolitan Mount Sinai Hospital,
Minneapolis.
See also
*
List of Succession of Bishops for the Episcopal Church, USA
References
External links
The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota
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American Episcopal priests
Episcopal bishops of Minnesota
American religious leaders
1911 births
1989 deaths
20th-century American Episcopalians
20th-century American clergy