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...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...
...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...
Died. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, 64, erudite, cherub-faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...
Sisterhoods at Oxford, Wantage, and Clewer had already offered, with the blessing of Anglican bishops a number of sanctuaries for women. Great communities dedicated to the saints had sprung up all over England. It remained only for an organized movement of men to develop. The Society of St. John the Evangelist, or the Cowley Fathers, provided that organization...
From these early beginnings has grown a world-wide Anglican institution, comprised of British, American, and Canadian congregations, with missions in Scotland, Japan, India, and South Africa. The Society publishes three periodicals, numerous pamphlets and books, and has carried Episcopal missionary work to the remotest corners of the earth. Its headquarters in the United States are at the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, in Cambridge...