American clergyman and author, hymnwriter

Phillips Brooks

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American clergyman and author, hymnwriter
Member of, past and present

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered with a Lesser Feast on January 23.