Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were anxious to cease fire, the consultations continued. Harold Macmillan, Britain's troubleshooting Resident Minister at Allied Mediterranean Headquarters, conferred busily with Premier Papandreou and other leaders. ELAS must lay down its arms, but the regency was not a stumbling block. Most likely choice was 54-year-old Archbishop Damaskinos (born Demetrios Papandreou-see RELIGION), whose impartiality and anti-fascist record made him acceptable to both sides. Premier George Papandreou preferred a three-man regency. The Archbishop replied that he would act alone, or not at all. ELAS retired to consider surrendering its arms, the Government to persuade absent...
...further news of Archbishop Damaskinos, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...
Pope Pius XII last week altered the U.S. Roman Catholic map, creating a new archdiocese (Indianapolis) and three new dioceses (Steubenville, Ohio; Lafayette and Evansville, Ind.). To be Archbishop of Indianapolis, he named the city's Bishop since 1934, kindly, tolerant Joseph Elmer Ritter...
William Temple became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in history to be cremated (his ashes were buried in the ancient cloisters of Canterbury's bomb-pocked Cathedral...