Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Pryor Almon Abbott learned last week that he must remain on duty as bishop (Episcopalian) of the Lexington, Ky., diocese. Bishop Abbott tendered his resignation last month after one of his parish priests, Julius Arnold Velasco, had married a Roman Catholic girl against the bishop's insistence. A diocese court cleared the priest of everything but using defamatory language against his chief (TIME...
...because he did not want the serenity of the Church disturbed by the House of Bishops considering an embittered resignation so very soon after his election as Presiding Bishop, it was Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island (TIME, April 7) who, not without difficulty, persuaded Bishop Abbott to remain on duty at Lexington for "the best interests of the Church...
...known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would resign his orders. Greatly exercised by Rector Velasco's deed was Right Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, Canadian-born onetime rector of Chicago and Baltimore churches, Bishop of the Lexington diocese since May 1929. Soon both Bishop Abbott and Rector Velasco had plenty...
Fortnight ago Rector Velasco was placed on trial before an ecclesiastical court of five local Episcopal priests, charged with: 1) violating his preordination pledge; 2) conduct unbecoming a minister; 3) using defamatory language about Bishop Abbott. Rector Velasco claimed that his pledge had been revoked before his nuptials. Said he: "Love does not wait on religious persuasion. I married her not because she is a Roman Catholic but in spite of it. . . . I want my orders as much as any man ever wanted to serve his God, but I see no reason why I should not marry the girl...
Holding, despite the court findings, that Rector Velasco had broken his "plighted and written pledge," that it would be impossible for a bishop to recognize such a man in his diocese, Bishop Abbott last week went to a meeting in Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington; characterized the sentence of a reprimand as "absurd." Then he astounded his colleagues by resigning his Bishopric. Afterwards he donned knickers and an eyeshade, sought the quiet golf links. Said he: "So far as I am concerned, the Roman Catholic issue made no difference. . . . It was merely a question of the honor and integrity...