Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Most Reverend John Joseph Mitty, D.D., 77, mild-mannered but strong-minded spiritual leader who in 26 years as Archbishop of San Francisco presided over 500 major building projects and the establishment of 84 new parishes and missions; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif...
Thus, come next January, there is every chance that John McCormack-the "archbishop" of the cloakrooms-will take up the gavel handled with such dexterity for so long by Sam Rayburn...
...Died. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, 73, acting head of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; at Kalocsa, Hungary. Arrested in 1951, Archbishop Grosz "confessed" to assorted anti-Red crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956 that sent Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty into refuge at the U.S. legation.* Grosz was able to keep the church alive in Red Hungary only by obeying most regime directives, including an oath of allegiance to the Communist constitution...
Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
...paintings and frescoes covered the walls of some of Europe's noblest palaces, from the Archbishop's Palace in Udine to the Prince-Bishop's Residenz in Wiirzburg to the throne room of King Charles III in Madrid. No man of his time was a greater master of drama and color, or knew so well how to unlock the secrets of light or to harmonize painting and architecture. Though he was sometimes guilty of slickness, his best paintings still stun the eye. He was the last of the great baroque artists, and it was not until just...