Warren Akin Candler

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Warren Akin Candler, a bishop in the Methodist Church and the brother of Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler, was appointed the first chancellor of the Candler School of Theology in 1914. The new school was founded to replace the denomination's loss of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Courtesy of Archives, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University

Warren Akin Candler

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