Word: anglican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral in the world...
...first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent's jungles, veldts and hills, the Protestant churches of Africa met together. Some 200 leaders gathered for a ten-day All-Africa Church Conference at St. Anne's Anglican Girls' School at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...such independent states as Ghana, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia and the Union of South Africa. They included Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Dutch Reformed and "soldiers" of the Salvation Army. The ten days they spent together aired out many a mind that had been shut up in tribal parochialism. Said Anglican Archdeacon Erisa K. Masaba: "We in Uganda don't accept the Christians from our neighboring territory of Kenya as real Christians. For me it is a surprise to see members of different churches worshiping together here, and from now on I'm going to look at the Kenya...
Delegates reported that Islam is making strong strides among Africans in competition with Christianity. Warned Anglican Bishop Solomon Odutola of Eastern Nigeria: "The spirit behind Islam is 'What shall I do to be saved?" The average person prefers Islam's simple answer of what to do. It appeals to him more than Christianity's deeper and more complicated method of what to be, to be saved...
...Anglican dioceses in Africa also have black bishops [Dec. 23]. The 620,000 Anglicans in West Africa have eight natives in the episcopate, and the million Anglicans in Central and East Africa have six more. The policy of advancing native Africans to the episcopate is not a recent Anglican practice; the first such was a rescued slave, Samuel Adjai Crowther, who was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral in 1864. He served as bishop on the Niger for 27 years...