[3] While a student at Yale, he taught Sunday school at St. Paul's Church in New Haven and experienced a call to the ordained ministry.

[2] He earned his Master of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1914.

[3] He then served as an assistant minister at Trinity Church in Boston until 1917, when he became a Red Cross chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital.

[3] He also proved to be a gifted fundraiser, increasing Trinity's average annual contribution to the national church from $30,000 to $35,000—one of the largest of any Episcopalian parish in the country at that time.

While Presiding Bishop he led in the organization of the Episcopal Church Foundation and the establishment of the Seabury Press.

[citation needed] In 1959, he led the consecration of his son, Edmund Knox Sherrill, as an Anglican bishop in Brazil.

Sherrill House, a nursing and rehabilitation center in Jamaica Plain, Boston, is named in his honor.