Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is no mean event-for the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cosmo Gordon Lang, P.C., G.C.V.O., D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, is the senior prelate of the Anglican Church, which with its worldwide affiliates (including the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has 40,000,000 members. Spiritually, only the Pope has more followers. Temporally, Canterbury ranks among Britons next to the royal family, takes precedence over the Prime Minister. Even a King cannot safely defy him, for his opposition, making use of the Anglican stand against divorce, was a major factor...
Only thrice before in the 1,345 years since Augustine landed in Kent has an Archbishop of Canterbury left office before death relieved him. But 77-year-old Cosmo Cantuar, as the Archbishop signs him self (Cantuar: abbreviation for Cantuarium, Latin for Canterbury), felt he had good cause...
...Preparation for these tasks must begin now." In emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...
Whoever his successor is, Dr. Lang will almost certainly be the last archbishop of his kind (just as he is the first unmarried Primate since the Reformation). The 20th Century does not breed his type of courtier-bishop. Since he first caught Queen Victoria's eye in 1896 with his tactful eloquence and for being "so human," he has been the friend and confidant of the royal family-except for Edward VIII, who called him a "sanctimonious humbug." He also is strong-willed and not afraid to speak his mind, even went to the unpopular extreme of defending...
...commission's program is described by its chairman, the Archbishop of York, as "a conscious and deliberate attempt to cancel the divorce between theology and economics." Its avowed aim is to create an economy of abundance with "the interest of the consumer . . . the chief regulator of production...