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...worldwide Anglican Communion has a new top prelate in a new top job. To streamline its scattered activities in a jet-shrinking world, the Archbishop of Canterbury last week announced that he had picked an American: the Right Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Olympia, Wash...
Bishop Bayne's new and different post, created at the request of the Lambeth Conference, consists of two secretaryships: of the Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy and the Lambeth Consultative Body. In the first, he will coordinate the missionary activities of 15 constituent self-governing churches of the Anglican Communion (total membership: 40 million). In the second, he will supervise the lines of action initiated by Lambeth Conferences during the ten-year intervals between them. In addition, he plans to make his London office (he moves in after Jan. 1) a clearinghouse for theological studies. "The thing that draws...
...knew how to treat me afterwards." But such announcements are growing less unusual all the time. Across Britain, parish-church notice boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F. Chaplain's School, a quarter of the 125 candidates for ordination are senior officers...
...Church of England, desperately short of candidates for the clergy, is glad to get them, though their age is a negative factor. "It is true that senior officers have had experiences which must surely be beneficial to the church," said an Anglican official last week. "But, alas, they have only perhaps five,'ten, or at most 15 years of useful life to give." Instead of the usual three-or four-year course, the church educates them for parish service with an 18-month "pocket" course, minus the usual classical-language requirements...
...Japan. He wanted to visit Kobe to consecrate St. Michael's Cathedral and see various Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. What did he most want to see in Japan? Replied Fisher: "What I most wanted to see was Bishop Michael Hinsuke Yashiro [Japan's Anglican Presiding Bishop]-and I am very happy to have seen...