Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper and an archbishop came closest to saying what it meant...
...suppressed mother church in Moscow, the largest branch of North American Orthodoxy has sadly, steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home emptyhanded. As long as the Soviet state controls...
Died. The Most Rev. John Joseph Cantwell, 72, first Archbishop of Los Angeles (the archbishopric was created in 1936); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. Brawny, Irish-born Cantwell was credited with being the founding father of the potent Legion of Decency...
...Christians who take their creed seriously, they matter a great deal. Last week, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, made that point clear. Before the solemn Convocation of Canterbury, he spoke bluntly to (and about) one of his bishops, the Right...
...Bishop of Birmingham listened to his Archbishop's denunciation last week with a faint smile. "There is no question of my resigning my bishopric," he told a reporter afterwards. Dr. Fisher plans to take no further action. But his rebuke of the free-thinking Bishop served a wider purpose: to remind all easy-going Anglicans that 1) what a man believes is as important as what he does, and 2) the Apostles' Creed means what it says, even if some of those who recite it don't think...