Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raymond Rouleau, to be archbishop of Quebec and Cardinal; and asked: "Has anyone anything to say?" The cardinals severally raised their red caps in silent & formal assent...
...this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons. . . . For a moment the vote's shattering impact seemed lost upon 77-year-old Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then great tears gushed from his eyes, sobs issued from his throat. Slowly he was led away by the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Primate of England, Archbishop of York. The labors of these two old friends for 21 years and more would have...
Last week Archbishop John J. Dunn, of the Catholic diocese of New York, journeyed to Staten Island to attend special services, returned to his Manhattan home, discovered that from his automobile had been lost a black valise containing cassock, robes, crucifix. The Archbishop was distraught, for the crucifix (inlaid with four two-carat diamonds and many a sapphire) bore the instriptions: "Worn by Cardinal Farley as auxiliary Bishop of New York;" "Presented by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes to the Right Rev. John J. Dunn...
That night a shivering taxi-driver sat at his stand reading an early edition of next morning's newspaper. He read of the Archbishop's loss, of the value of the crucifix. Therefore he drove to the Archbishop's house, handed over the valise with contents undisturbed, explained that he had seen the bag on the curb, had been unable to overtake the Archbishop's automobile, departed without leaving his name...