Philip Mercer Rhinelander (June 6, 1869 – September 21, 1939)[1] was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1923.

[11][12] Rhinelander was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before graduating from Harvard University with an A.B.

[13] In 1903, due to health issues, he ended parish work and became a professor of pastoral studies at the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut.

[14] Along with Bishop James E. Freeman, he was instrumental in the creation of the Washington Cathedral, which he later served as a trustee of and where he was a Warden of the College of Preachers.

[17] Together, they were the parents of: Rhinelander died at his summer home, known as Dogmar on Eastern Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1939.

[1] After his funeral at St. John's Episcopal Church in Gloucester, he was buried at Island Cemetery in Newport.

[21] Bishop Rhinelander received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Episcopal Theological School and from Columbia University.