Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop Stephen of Petraca, at Council of Lateran, said of Pope Leo that he had "power above all power, both in heaven and on earth" (Decretals of Gregory III [731-741; Gregory XIII...
Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...
...rabbit" for arguing, was ordained priest. The young man was eloquent with words, never lost his temper, was very likable, studied hard, reasoned clearly. His superiors liked him; soon, in 1877, made him professor of philosophy at the Petit Seminaire in the see of Malines the seat of Archbishop Goossens. For five years there he educated youths; taught them with kindliness, perspicacity, sympathy. He gained besides a wide reputation, a wide influence...
When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...
This sect is headed in the U.S. by Archbishop W. H. Francis, with headquarters in Chicago. It traces its episcopal lineage to the Ancient Church of the Netherlands, founded in the Seventh Century by a Briton, Saint Willibrord. Its modern strength dates from 1870, when there acceded to it many Roman Catholic bishops who could not agree to the doctrine of papal infallibility promulgated and accepted by the Vatican Council just interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. Old Catholics insist on the peerage of the bishops, and further object to the stringently monarchial system of the Roman Catholic Church...