Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aged Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, Louis Ernest Dubois, rolled out excommunicatory thunders last week. He menaced that famed tragi-comic group of Roman Catholics who never cease their efforts to restore the French Royal House of Bourbon and who rally 'round an incorrigible news organ called L'Action Francaise (TIME, June...
...dozen Cardinals stationed regularly in Rome, he is the only one born in England. The only English Cardinal is Archbishop Bourne of England...
...reception rather a dowdy party; the room was very fine with its white walls, shining background to the family pictures, ". . . but nobody was very smartly dressed. Very few young people. No naked people at all. A great many old men with ribbons and orders. The Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Of course there would be lots of clergy...
Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...
...committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform of a rope whereby sunken innocents were sometimes dragged out before they drowned...