Henry H. Shires

Henry Herbert Shires (June 7, 1886 – April 29, 1961) was an American cleric who served as suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California from 1950 to 1958. Shires was consecrated on September 29, 1950.

Born in Bernardsville, New Jersey, Shires studied at Cornell University and the General Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1911. In 1911, he married Mabel Clare Millis. Shires was ordained as a priest in 1912. After serving parishes in New Jersey, Arizona, and California, he became dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1935. Shires was suffragan bishop of California from 1950 to 1958.

Shires retired in 1958 and died on April 29, 1961. His son, Henry Millis Shires, became an Episcopal priest and was professor of New Testament at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts.