page_title: Henry Benjamin Whipple
section_title: Later episcopate
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Benjamin Whipple / Later episcopate
caption_attribution_description: English: Program for the funeral of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, published 20 September 1901 by The Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, Faribault, Minnesota. (This work is in the public domain in the United States and worldwide.)
context_page_description: Henry Benjamin Whipple was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, a humanitarian and an advocate for Native Americans.
context_section_description: Although a high churchman in doctrine, Whipple preached tolerance of all views which fell within the scope of the church's basic teachings. Urging that the church's task was to "preach Christ crucified" and that sectarian quarrels hindered this mission, Whipple pleaded for unity among all branches of the Episcopal and Anglican communions, and for harmonious relations among members of all Christian denominations. Both in Chicago and in Minnesota, Whipple worked closely with ministers and communicants of the national Swedish church. His interest in the church's missionary efforts was reflected in his presidency of the Western Church Building Society (1880–1893), service on several committees and commissions of the General Convention concerned with missionary affairs, and special missions to Cuba and to Puerto Rico.
  From the late 1870s until his death, Whipple's health compelled him to spend the winter months each year at his winter home in Maitland, Florida, where he held missionary services and in 1880 built the Carpenter Gothic Church of the Good Shepherd on land which he had purchased. The church was consecrated on March 17, 1883, and Whipple conducted regular services there each winter for the rest of his life.
  Henry B. Whipple died on September 16, 1901, having survived his coadjutor Mahlon Norris Gilbert.
caption: Memorial service program for Whipple
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