Phillips Brooks
PersonAmerican clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835–1893)
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. Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
| Born | 1835-12-13 |
| Died | 1893-01-23 |
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