Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drear London twilight last week the old Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, slowly paraded into Church House at Westminister.† With him was the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Anglican Archbishop of York and Primate of England; and behind them entered 300 high dignitaries of their Church of England, gay in vestment, sombre in feature...
...says legend, famine visited Bingen (on the Rhine). Hatto, the Archbishop, had a full granary. The populace clamored for him to share it with them. He bade them enter his barn, where he burned them all up "like the rats you are." That night as Hatto sat down to a glutton's feast at his table, fierce rats assailed him in droves. He fled on horseback, rowed to a tower in the middle of the Rhine, locked himself in. There the rats followed and devoured him. Poet Southey celebrated this event in "God's judgment upon a Wicked Bishop...
...Archbishop Polycarpos, Metropolitan of Xanthi, Greece, in his formal robes, thanked President Coolidge for U. S. aid in the Near East...
Bishop Arrested. Since the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop José Mora y delRio, is an old and feeble man (TIME, July 26 et seq.) the real head of the Episcopate is its Secretary, Bishop Pasquale Diaz of Tabasco, a pure-blooded Mexican Indian, a smiling but doughty fighter against the anti-religious laws. During the crucial hours of last week Bishop Diaz expressed himself in fervent unbridled fashion to members of the informal U. S. investigating committee now touring Mexico. Apparently the Calles Government was thereby stampeded into the rash act of arrresting Bishop Diaz, and concealing the place...
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: "The $3,000,000 will of Lawyer-Banker John Whalen was opened last week. For signature it bore a cross, for he made this will three days before his death from pneumonia, when he was too feeble for greater exertion. Half of the estate's residue, about $1,400,000 is willed to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. That might mean me personally, for Roman Catholic prelates are permitted to own private fortunes. But Lawyer-Banker Whalen's own lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney, an Episcopalian, who witnessed...