Philip Carrington (6 July 1892 – 3 October 1975) was an eminent Anglican

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and author, the seventh Bishop of Quebec and the eleventh Metropolitan of Canada. Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch and the University of Canterbury, he was ordained in 1919. At first he specialised in work with the Boy Scouts and was then

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. After this he was Warden of St Barnabas Theological College, North Adelaide then

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of Divinity at Bishop's University, Lennoxville. In 1935 he was elevated to the episcopateHe was the brother of

Charles Carrington Charles Carrington (1857–1921) was a leading British publisher of erotica in late-19th- and early-20th-century Europe. Born ''Paul Harry Ferdinando'' in Bethnal Green, England on 11 November 1867, he moved in 1895 from London to Paris where h ...

, the Historian of World War I and the biographer of Rudyard Kiplin
Anglican Bishops of Quebec
and retired in 1960.

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1892 births 1975 deaths People from Lichfield People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch University of Canterbury alumni Anglican Church of Canada deans Bishop's University faculty Anglican bishops of Quebec 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops Metropolitans of Canada 20th-century Anglican archbishops New Zealand emigrants to Canada {{Canada-Anglican-bishop-stub