Robert Franklin Wilner (April 10, 1889 – March 25, 1960) was an

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of the

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. He was born in

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to George Mortimer Wilner and Lillian Isabel Wilner (née Price). He married Alfaretta Amburn Stark on April 10, 1917. He graduated at the Philadelphia Divinity School and was ordained a deacon in 1928. He was later ordained priest in 1929. He was elected as suffragan bishop of the Philippines in October 1937. He was consecrated to the

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on January 25, 1938 in the Cathedral Church of Saints Mary and John,

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. He died in

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Consecrators

Wilner was consecrated on January 25, 1938 by: * Gouverneur Frank Mosher * Charles S. Reifsnider (assistant) *

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(assistant)

External links

Robert F. Wilner at Morningstar Gnostickos
1889 births 1960 deaths People from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 20th-century American Episcopalians Episcopal bishops of the Philippine Islands {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub