Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 70, British-born Archbishop of Toronto and Anglican Primate of All Canada, longtime crusader for a united church; of a heart attack; in Toronto, Canada...
...analogue to England's Archbishop of Canterbury, and sixth-ranking prelate of the Anglican Communion (after the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh and Wales, the Primus of Scotland...
...Noble took the archiepiscopal instruction to heart. He introduced cathedral evensong to St. Thomas' afternoon service, changed the style of the Psalter to conform to the Anglican tradition. Meanwhile, he was writing church music of his own-anthems, and the tunes to many such familiar hymns as Come, Labour On and Fierce Was the Wild Billow...
...Bishop of Gloucester (1923-45), who was largely responsible for bringing about intercommunion between the Church of England and Europe's "Old Catholics" (a sect formed in 1870 by Roman Catholics who refused to subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility), was famed as one of the foremost Anglican scholars of his generation; in Durham, England...
...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...