William Chauncey Emhardt (January 29, 1874-August 5, 1950) was secretary of the Episcopal Church's Advisory Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations, and a prominent figure in ecumenical relations between Anglicans and Orthodox Christians, as well as Anglicans and Old Catholics. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 19, 1898 by Bishop Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh

Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh

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, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas

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He received his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania

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 in 1894, following education at the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. He attended the now-defunct Philadelphia Divinity School, which conferred an honorary S.T.D. on him in 1931.

He served as rector of the Trinity Church, Arkansas City, Kansas

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 (assisting at St. John's Military School

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, Salina, Kansas); Church of the Ascension, Gloucester, New Jersey

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 (1902-1907); St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Newtown, Pennsylvania

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(1907-1920), and on a number of ecclesiastical commissions. He was the Executive Director of the Foreign Born Division of the National Council of the Episcopal Church.