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The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, plants the "Presiding Bishop's Tree" in Honolulu in 1955, during the church’s 58th Triennial General Convention. The Rainbow Shower tree was planted as a living symbol of the Episcopal Chruch. It was one of 43 trees forming an avenue of shower trees. RNS archive photo. Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society
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