Phillips Brooks
American clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835-1893) · United States · On the map · Religious Figures · Died at 57
Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries.
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Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Trinity Church, Boston, dedicated 1910
Memorial to Phillips Brooks in Trinity Church, Boston
P. Brooks, ca. 1875-1920. Cabinet Card Collection, Boston Public Library
Brooks and Bishop McVicker, 1884; from the Cabinet Card Collection of the Boston Public Library
Phillips Brooks Statue on North Andover Common
Plaque on rear base of Phillips Brooks Statue, North Andover Common
View of Phillips Brooks statue and North Parish on North Andover CommonAbout this person
Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
