Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semicircle of chairs, amid banked roses, heather and myrtle in the Palace music room, sat the family, a handful of old retainers, a sprinkling of ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and the godparents. Resplendent in gold cope and miter before a silver-gilt font, the Archbishop of Canterbury reached out gingerly to take the baby, swathed in four yards of silk and Honiton lace...
...Name this child," he said. Princess Margaret answered firmly and clearly, "Charles Philip Arthur George." "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," said the Archbishop, dabbing water from the font on the baby's brow. Young Prince Charles gurgled demurely, and ten well-scrubbed choirboys in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold sang out O Worship the King. Afterwards there was tea and christening cake, and everyone drank the baby's health in champagne...
...these words the bishops of the Anglican communion, assembled under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the eighth Lambeth Conference last summer, expressed their collective view of the well-known Roman Catholic rules for non-Roman partners of "mixed" marriages...
...that is to say: 1) no other religious wedding ceremony could be performed; 2) any children of the marriage were to be brought up as Roman Catholics. The groom's mother and five brothers were present, but his father was unable to attend. He is Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Married. Henry Pears Fisher, 30, lawyer, eldest son of Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury; and Felicity Sutton, 26, painter; in London (see RELIGION...