William Chauncey Emhardt
William Chauncey Emhardt was secretary of the Episcopal Church's Advisory Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations, and a prominent figure in ecumenical relations between Anglicans and Orthodox Christians, as well as Anglicans and Old Catholics. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 19, 1898 by Bishop Frank Rosebrook Millspaugh, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.
He received his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894, following education at the Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. He attended the now-defunct Philadelphia Divinity School, which conferred an honorary S.T.D. on him in 1931.
He served as rector of the Trinity Church, Arkansas City, Kansas ; Church of the Ascension, Gloucester, New Jersey ; St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Newtown, Pennsylvania, and on a number of ecclesiastical commissions. He was the Executive Director of the Foreign Born Division of the National Council of the Episcopal Church.
