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Richard Stanley Merrill Emrich (1910-1997) was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. He was born in Mardin Turkey to missionary parents and educated at Brown University and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1936 and to the priesthood in 1938 after which he served parishes in Connecticut and Massachusetts.Emrich was elected suffragan bishop of Michigan in 1946; he served as diocesan bishop from 1948 to 1973.
