{{Short description|Canadian bishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend | name = Charles P. Anderson | honorific_suffix = | title = 17th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church | image = Fond-du-lac-circus.preview (Anderson cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Anderson in 1900 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = Episcopal Church | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected = November 13, 1929 | term = 1929–1930 | quashed = <!-- or | retired = --> | predecessor = John Gardner Murray | successor = James De Wolf Perry | opposed = | other_post = Bishop of Chicago (1905-1930) <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = December 16, 1888 | ordained_by = John Lewis | consecration = February 24, 1900 | consecrated_by = William Edward McLaren | rank = Presiding bishop <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1865|09|08}} | birth_place = Kemptville, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|01|30|1865|09|08}} | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States | buried = Phelps Cemetery, Phelps, Wisconsin | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = Canadian | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = Henry Anderson, Maria Rose Sexton | spouse = Janet Glass | children = 5 | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = Coadjutor Bishop of Chicago <small>''(1900-1905)''</small> | education = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = <!---------- Other ----------> | module = | module2 = | other = }} '''Charles Palmerston Anderson''' (September 8, 1865 – January 30, 1930) was the seventeenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
==Early life and education== He was born in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada, on September 8, 1865, the son of Henry Anderson<ref name=":0">{{cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Anderson, Charles Palmerston |volume= 1 |pages= 107-108 |short=1}}</ref> and Maria Rose Sexton. He attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by Trinity College, Toronto in 1900<ref name=":0" /> and another by Western Theological Seminary in 1905.<ref>(1931). ''The Living Church Annual'', p. 60. Morehouse-Gorham Company, New York.</ref>
==Ordained ministry== Anderson was ordained deacon on December 11, 1887, and priest on December 16, 1888, by Bishop John Lewis of Ontario. After his ordination to the diaconate he was in charge of the Church of St. Augustine in Beachburg, Ontario from 1888 to 1891.<ref name=":0" /> In 1891 he became rector of Grace Church in Oak Park, Illinois.<ref>[https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/gallery/image/charles-palmerston-anderson-1929-1930 "Charles Palmerston Anderson (1929-1930)"], ''The Episcopal Church''. Retrieved on 02 March 2019.</ref>
===Bishop=== In 1900, Anderson was unanimously elected Coadjutor Bishop of Chicago during the first ballot of the special convention. He was consecrated on February 24, 1900, by the Bishop of Chicago, William Edward McLaren.<ref name=":0" /> He succeeded as diocesan bishop on February 19, 1905, on the death of William Edward McLaren. On November 13, 1929, Anderson was elected to the highest post in the Episcopal church, to serve as Presiding Bishop and Primate. He also retained the bishopric of Chicago simultaneously. Anderson died only a few months after his election as primate.
==Family== Anderson married Janet Glass of Belleville, Ontario, in 1889<ref name=":0" /> and together had four daughters and one son, the latter died in WWI.
==See also== * List of presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America * List of Episcopal bishops of the United States * Historical list of the Episcopal bishops of the United States
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