Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long step forward toward giving U.S. Episcopalians something they have never had-an archbishop-was taken last Wednesday when their Presiding Bishop was ceremonially seated on a special throne in Washington Cathedral...
...first great flood of Catholic immigrants-the Irish-arrived in the wake of the 1845 potato famine. Rather than have these largely rural Irish scatter to country districts and lose their faith through lack of contact, the American hierarchy under the leadership of New York's Archbishop John Hughes decided it would be better to concentrate them in the cities, where the relatively few priests available could cope with the crowds...
...very founding of Christ Church was associated with the College. While the accomodation of the local Church of England families was the primary reason for its organization, the students of Dissenter Harvard were also considered, and the Archbishop of Canterbury was urged to send a missionary who might "give a right turn to the Youth who are educated there." He sent the Reverend East Apthorp, whose Cambridge home is now occupied by the Master of Adams House, but the Puritan masters of the College and community lost little time in driving him back to England...
...bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic archbishop] would have cried: 'This is Europe! . . . Our vision is looking back, not forward. This is the Paris of the 13th Century...