Sterling Berry

Thomas Sterling Berry (10 January 1854 – 25 February 1931) was the 9th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh.[1]

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin[2] and ordained in 1877, his first posts were curacies at Christ Church, Kingstown and St George's, Dublin. Later he held incumbencies at Birr and Booterstown[3] before his ordination to the episcopate in 1913.[4]
He died in post.

Berry authored Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparison and a Contrast. The book rejected the idea of Buddhist influences on Christianity.[5]

Selected publications

References
  1. Handbook of British Chronology By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 0-521-56350-X, 9780521563505
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. Parish history Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. The Times, Wednesday, Mar 26, 1913; pg. 10; Issue 40169; col C Ecclesiastical Intelligence
  5. Masuzawa, Tomoko. (2005). The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism. University of Chicago Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-226-50988-4
Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by
Charles Benjamin Dowse		 Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
1913–1924		 Succeeded by
Henry Edmund Patton


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