Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faith-healing was debated at Lambeth Conference, 1920. The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed their Lordships the Bishops of Oxford, Liverpool, St. Albans and Southwark to investigate. Their Lordships have now reported. They say that "no sick person must look to a clergyman to do what it is a physician's or surgeon's duty to do." They add that it is the Church's duty to assist doctors to combat disease in God's name. "The physician is conscious that he is working with a mysterious partner inherent in life which we call vis medicatrix naturae...
...Archbishop Cranmer...
From the village of Chalcedon, on the Asiatic shore, Gregory VII crossed over to Phanar in a caïque, accompanied by the Archbishops of Brusa and New Caesarea. Where the marble steps of the Ecumenical palace go down to the waters of the Bosphorus, he was met by the Metropolitans of Nicaea and of Cyzicus. Taking his arms they led him to the palace gate. The chief secretary of the Holy Synod read him the canon of election. The Archbishop of Caesarea gave him the pastoral staff...
...surface it is a small matter which has brought the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans and the Orthodox (Russian and Greek) Churches together this week. It is the matter of the calendar. Representatives of the Pope, of the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Ecumenical Patriarch are sitting together at Geneva for the first time since 1453. All three Churches are now deciding whether they can adopt a fixed date for Easter...
America's youngest archbishop...