Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between the Protestants and Catholics is the Anglican Church (Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.), comparatively small (membership, some 1,250,000), comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
...Shrewd observers soon suspected an excellent motive behind the Archbishop's words. They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...
When he further announced the appointment of Sir Edwin L. Lutyens as architect, the idea of opposition acquired still more potency. Than the Catholics' Sir Edwin and the Anglicans' Sir Giles, England has no more famed architects. Catholic Sir Edwin, 60, designed the Government House in Delhi (India), many memorials, is an eclectic, fastidious craftsman. Anglican Sir Giles, 49, is an ecclesiastical specialist who loves the mossy, shattered abbeys and cloisters of England. In days to come, as they sit in the quiet recesses of London's Athenaeum Club, they may chat about their cathedrals, exchanging theories and compliments...
...held a conference, the first in Northern India's church history, to discuss the fusion of the United Church of Northern India, Methodist Episcopal Church, English Baptist Church, Disciples of Christ (American and Australian), Church of Brethren and Wesleyan Methodist Church. "Informal and unofficial" representatives of the Anglican Church were present...
...Jerusalem there is an Anglican Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Rennie Maclnnes, but he is no primate. A primate is an Archbishop or a Bishop of a see which ranks first in a province. Jerusalem is an independent see under the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of All England...