Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike its sister churches in the Anglican Communion, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. has never had an archbishop. But last week it took a step to get itself within three years the next thing to an archbishop. Hitherto U. S. Episcopalians have merely chosen a Presiding Bishop, expected him simultaneously to run his own diocese and head the church at large. The present Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, has a nationwide job but ecclesiastical authority only in Virginia. Most often he is in Manhattan, where he must get leave from Bishop...
...University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire was hit, its headmaster killed. The Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that Lambeth Palace, his London residence, had been demolished several days prior, same day Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after this announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered all its substitute stained glass. Shopping in Canterbury...
...vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some in crimson convocation robes; His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII, the bearded Patriarch of Assyria, wearing a gorgeous golden cope; Canada's Primate, the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, Archbishop of Toronto; and at procession's end the U. S. Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned...
Prayers and Pets. Characteristically Britons in the pious shires agitated themselves over whether it was their duty when at prayer "to pray also for the Germans" as enjoined by the Archbishop of York. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals revealed that, because pets are barred from air-raid shelters, great numbers of Britons are deliberately risking their lives by refusing to leave their pets. Only solution, according to the R. S. P. C. A., was to build air-raid shelters for pets. A 36-dog shelter was begun in Kensington Gardens...
...script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression on his folks in Massachusetts when he was chosen to translate the Pope's speech...