“…After a century of infancy, a century of childhood, and a century of adolescence, she has come at last to her majority, and reports for duty.' 28 Although lacking in numbers (in 1916 it ranked as America's ninth largest denomination) 29 the Protestant Episcopal Church possessed enormous wealth in relation to its size 7 and, in what has been described as America's 'great age of Episcocratic supremacy', 30 it also enjoyed unrivalled social prestige and cultural cachet. Despite the generally Loyalist leanings of the Anglican clergy during the Revolutionary War, Anglicanism had been well represented among the Founding Fathers and it had been the faith of George Washington-and, by 1916, of no fewer than seven of his twenty-six successors as president, a tally unrivalled by any other denomination.…”