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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...
...interested but non-interfering observer of this Episcopalian incident was Bishop Abbott's elder brother, Mather Almon Abbott, headmaster of Lawrenceville School, a Presbyterian...
...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...
Headmaster Mather Almon ("Bott") Abott of Lawrenceville School, N ]., was given a trip to Europe and a silver service to signalize the tenth year of his service at the school...
Rector Abbott's manner is dynamic. Like his brother, Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville, he inclines towards brusque action. Where Dr. Hutton had been mild and diffident, Rector Abbott seemed vigorously urgent, especially when his church needed money...