Howard Chandler Robbins

Background

Robbins, Howard Chandler was born on December 11, 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Review Francis L. and Lucy Morton (Hartpence) Robbins.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1899. Student Princeton Theological Seminary. Bachelor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, 1903.

Doctor of Divinity Williams College, 1916, Middlebury College, 1927, Yale, 1928, Trinity College, Episcopal Theological School, 1931.

South.T.D., Theological Seminary of Virginia, 1933. Doctor of Divinity, University Vermont, 1938, Kenyon College, 1939.

Career

Deacon, 1903, priest, 1904, Protestant Episcopal Church. Curate, Saint Peter’s Church, Morristown, New Jersey, 1903-1905. Rector, Saint Paul’s Church, Englewood, 1905-1911, Church of the Incarnation, New York, 1911-1917.

Dean Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, 1917-1929.

Professor pastoral theology, General Theological Seminary, 1929-1941. Visiting preacher Saint John's Church, Washington, 1942-1944.

Deputy to General Convention Protestant Episcopal Church, 1928, 31. 34, 37; delegate to World Conference on Faith and Order, 1937.

Delegate to North.A. Ecumenical Conference, 1941.

Achievements

• Howard Chandler Robbins has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society Mayflower Descendants Society Colonial Wars, South.R., National Institute Social Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Century. Company-Author: The Eternal Word in the Modern World, 1937.

Connections

Married Mary Louise Baylis, April.

Father:

Review Francis L. Robbins

Mother:

Lucy Morton (Hartpence) Robbins

Spouse:

Mary Louise Baylis