Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1, the Most Reverend and Rt. Honorable Dr. William Temple, now Lord Archbishop of York, will become Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in succession to Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang (TIME, Feb. 2). His place at York will be filled by another left-of-center prelate, Dr. Cyril Garbett, now Bishop of Winchester...
...Temple was born to the ecclesiastical purple-his father was Archbishop of Canterbury before him. After a brilliant career at Oxford, topped by a first in classics and the presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...showed signs of accepting the other churches in England as equals and joining with them to create a British Council of Churches like the Federal Council of Churches in America. This will be formed by merging the Council on Christian Faith and Common Life, now headed by the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury, and the interdenominational Commission for International Friendship and Social Responsibility, headed by the now ascendant Archbishop of York. The Anglican Council met last week and approved the merger. The other denominations have favored such a plan for years...
...condemned tenement on a board bed only two feet wide, ministered to people even poorer than himself. But promotion came to the shrewd young man: as an Oxford don, vicar of Portsea and, in 1901, Bishop of London's East End diocese of Stepney. In 1908 the Archbishop of York died, and at 44 Lang was appointed Europe's youngest archbishop...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang got ?15,000 (peacetime equivalent of $75,000) a year, most of which went in income taxes and upkeep of the vast medieval pile of Lambeth Palace which the Nazis blitzed last year. In his resignation speech the Archbishop referred to his "sudden withdrawal to some obscure place ... to face ... the restraints and inconveniences of very slender means." Leftist papers tartly said they thought his ?1,500 pension was more than that...