James De Wolf Perry


The Right Reverend James DeWolf Perry was an American Episcopal clergyman and prelate. He was the 7th Bishop of Rhode Island and the 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church .

The third of five children, Perry was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Rev. James DeWolf Perry II and Elizabeth Russell Tyson. His father was rector of Calvary Church in Germantown he was also a descendant of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, , and Senators William Bradford and James De Wolf, and was great great grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Bourne who served in the American Revolution.

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