Word: anglicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four Filipino chaplains (three Roman Catholic, one Anglican) are now missing in action...
...like the Federal Council of Churches in America. This will be formed by merging the Council on Christian Faith and Common Life, now headed by the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury, and the interdenominational Commission for International Friendship and Social Responsibility, headed by the now ascendant Archbishop of York. The Anglican Council met last week and approved the merger. The other denominations have favored such a plan for years...
...Anglican Bishop of Ely once rightly described Dr. Mott as "this Ulysses of modern missionaries." For example, he has toured Latin America five times in the last two years. Though given to car, air-and seasickness, he has traveled more than 2,000,000 miles by train, plane and ship. "Sometimes when I wake in the morning," he says, "I have to ask my secretary what country...
This is no mean event-for the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cosmo Gordon Lang, P.C., G.C.V.O., D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, is the senior prelate of the Anglican Church, which with its worldwide affiliates (including the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has 40,000,000 members. Spiritually, only the Pope has more followers. Temporally, Canterbury ranks among Britons next to the royal family, takes precedence over the Prime Minister. Even a King cannot safely defy him, for his opposition, making use of the Anglican stand against divorce, was a major factor...
...emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...