Brent, an Episcopalian bishop, worked among the non-Christian tribes in the Mountain Province. He founded Brent School in Baguio. Brent was elected the first Episcopal bishop to the Philippines in October, 1901. But he did not leave his work at St. Stephen''s church in south Boston for Manila until May of the next year (1902) because he spent the intervening months raising funds with which to carry on his new task. In Manila, Brent was responsible for the construction of the Episcopal Cathedral on Padre Faura Street which was destroyed in World War II. He also built and equipped the pre-war St. Luke''s Hospital in Tondo, and founded a settlement house and an orphanage. In the Mountain Province, he started the St. Mary the Virgin School, Igorot boys and girls who were trained in modern farming at Sagada. In Zamboanga, he established the Brent Hospital which was staffed by medical missionaries. He founded a mission school for Muslim boys at Indianan, in the interior of Jolo in 1914. To avoid conflict, religious teaching was left to be taught at home or in the mosques, while the youngsters were taught agriculture, the handicrafts, and cooking. One of the 10 children of Canadian parents, Brent was born on April 9, 1862, in Newcastle (where his father was the rector of the St. George''s church), Ontario, Canada. After attending Trinity College School at Port Hope, he studied at the University of Toronto, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1884 and an M.A. in 1889. A naturalized American citizen, he became the bishop of western New York for 10 years (1919-1929). Brent wrote several books, among them "Liberty and Other Sermons", "A Master Builder," and "The Splendour of the Human Body." Brent was an officer, Legion of Honor, when General John Pershing named him his senior chaplain, with the rank of Major in 1918. He was 56 when he died at Lausanne, Switzerland on March 27, 1919.