Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop Stepinac was born (1898) into a Croat peasant family of eleven children. In 1916, he served in the Austrian Army on the Italian front. He was captured, but was later allowed to join the Serbian Army. In 1924 he went to Rome to study for the priesthood. Four years after his ordination, King Alexander unexpectedly approved him as successor to the Archbishop. He took office in 1937. No sycophant, the new Archbishop repeatedly urged his royal benefactor to abolish the royal dictatorship. Later, Archbishop Stepinac lashed out at the Nazi "master race" idea and condemned the execution of hostages...
...55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church warmed up to a lively boil. In Philadelphia last week the subject in the 150-man House of Bishops was Divorce. In the 700-man* House of Deputies it was Union. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since...
Never before in history, except possibly at the court of Genghis Khan at Karakorum, has there been such a coming & going of representatives of races from all the ends of the earth. Chinese statesmen, a British archbishop, American generals, Azerbaijanian revolutionists, Indian conspirators, Mongolian ministers, Poles, Persians, Rumanians, Finns, Czechs, Germans, Frenchmen, Turks, Koreans, Australians, Canadians, Norwegians and many more have been received on this field in public panoply while the band struck up the Soviet anthem...
...goggle-eyed followers he told still more: about the subterranean Great White Lodge, 75 miles beneath the Forbidden City of Lhasa and reached by a "gravity-neutralizing" elevator, where a twelve-man Supreme Council met in a white-metal hall to plan world strategy. "Archbishop" Doreal assured brotherhood members that he kept in constant touch with the council by sending his soul back to Tibet by "astral projection...
...religions with which the brotherhood would lead the postatomic world, "Archbishop" Doreal took care last week to be as misty as the distant Himalayas. Said he: "Our foundation is Christian, but our interpretation differs from that of the orthodox groups. . . . We're reasonable people, not fanatics." His most explicit expression of faith: "I am a Republican...