C. P. A. Burnett

Charles Philip Augustus Burnett (June 5, 1849 — November 14, 1933) was a major American Anglo-Catholic priest, liturgist, and author in the Episcopal Church.

Born in Skaneateles, New York, he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1878, and ordained to the priesthood "with full literary qualifications" (i.e. no undergraduate degree) in 1879 by Bishop Horatio Potter of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

Burnett was associated closely with William McGarvey of Philadelphia, but remained within the Protestant Episcopal Church after McGarvey and many of his followers became Roman Catholics in the Open Pulpit Controversy of 1907-1909.

Burnett was secretary-general of the American Branch of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament from 1914 to 1922.

Burnett is buried at the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in New York City.