Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a black gown and a black-veiled mitre, there arrived in Manhattan last autumn His Grace the Most Reverend Theodosios Abourjaily, Archbishop of Tyre & Sidon, Metropolitan of Judadeh and personal delegate of Alexander III, Patriarch of Antioch in the Syrian branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America, with 60,0000 members, had been without a head since 1934, when Archbishop Victor and his two immediate subordinates died. To select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over...
...George's Syrian Orthodox Church at Toledo, Ohio last week bells pealed, peppery incense swirled, the congregation shouted "Oxiose, Oxiose!" ["Son of the Church!"], and Orthodox U. S. Syrians had a new spiritual leader. But the man who was thus consecrated Archbishop of the Syrian Church of North America was not Professor Bashir. He was the priest of St. George's, a heavy-faced, black-bearded Archimandrite named Samuel David...
...years ago. He smokes costly Turkish cigarets, drives a big Packard, and when the votes were counted in Manhattan after last autumn's stormy election, Samuel David was at hand. When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted. Archbishop Theodosios offered to compromise by elevating both Bashir and David, then withdrew that offer. Feeling he had been double-crossed, Samuel David marshaled Syrian followers about him. By last week he was ready to declare himself Syrian Archbishop of North America...
...three sympathetic Russian bishops whose spiritual powers were, after all, as efficacious as those of any other Orthodox churchmen. In St. George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
Last year His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, sent a message to His Beatitude Joseph Emanuel Thomas II. Patriarch of Babylon, Shepherd of Eastern Roman Catholics who worship under the Chaldean Rite. Would His ' Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U. S.? In Mosul, Iraq the white-bearded Patriarch assented, chose his black-bearded onetime Vicar General, Rev. Francis Thomay. That 51-year-old cleric shaved off his whiskers, removed...