Word: archbishop
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Only the death of the Pope could have saddened more Christians. William Temple was more than the 98th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, spiritual leader of 40.000,000 Anglicans. He was also head of the World Council of Churches, representing 350,000,000 Christians of almost every denomination except the Roman Catholic...
...William Temple death came suddenly, with a heart attack at Westgate-on-the-Sea, where the 63-year-old prelate was recuperating from gout. He had been Archbishop of Canterbury for only two and a half years. Speculation about his successor, to be appointed by the King (on the advice of the Prime Minister), centered around two names: Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, 69, Archbishop of York, and Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, Bishop of London. But one thing was certain: there is no one else quite like William Temple in the whole Anglican Communion. London's Tory Times...
...Just Beast." William Temple, the only son of an Archbishop of Canterbury ever to follow his father, was born in the Bishop's Palace at Exeter. Later, Bishop Frederick Temple became headmaster of Rugby, and young William learned Latin and Greek on backless benches in chilly rooms among fellow students who referred to his father as "a beast, but a just beast." "Fat Willie Temple'' was both precocious and impish. From Rugby he went on to Balliol College, Oxford, where he made a brilliant academic record and became president of the Oxford Union...
Social Revolutionist. Ordained to the priesthood, Temple served successively as chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, headmaster of Repton School, rector of St. James's in Piccadilly, Canon of Westminster Abbey. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Manchester. Eight years later, at 48, he was made the youngest Archbishop of York in history...
...Last week the Pope was described in a letter from Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York to his flock: "I . . . found him aged, thin and saddened since I had last seen him. Fifteen months of anxiety and pain have taken a heavy toll. No robust physical stature nor strong broad shoulders has the Pope to bear the sorrows of the world, but the Christlike figure, Christlike shoulders and above all a Christlike sanctity and spirit . . . he reminds me of the wounded Christ...