Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody was surprised. The obvious choice was Milan's charming and brilliant archbishop, Giovanni Cardinal Montini, 63; he had been mentioned as a candidate for the post during the reign of Pius XII, who was his own Secretary of State. Cardinal Cicognani seemed hardly in the running; he is 78, for one thing, and his long association with the U.S. might seem too obvious a bid for diplomatic relations with Washington. But after Pope John had confirmed his reputation for unpredictability by naming Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican hindsighters were quick to see how brilliant the choice had been...
...Hué. He has his own network of secret police, holds sway over the government's provincial chiefs in the region. Reputedly owner of vast tracts of land, he is wealthy, contributed heavily to the construction of a new cathedral in Hue where Brother Ngo Dinh Thuc is now Archbishop...
...century Bishop of Hippo and founder of the Augustinian philosophy, but the 6th century missionary, sent to England by Pope Gregory, who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Will to Go Apart." Archbishop Ramsey, a scholar and theologian rather than an extravert administrator like his retired predecessor, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, promised that the Church of England would "strive to penetrate the world of industry, of science, of art and literature, of sight and sound." But he seemed to speak with more feeling of the importance of scholarship and the need "for constant detachment, a will to go apart and wait upon God in quiet and silence...
Only once did he sound any kind of tocsin. Under the same roof where another Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, was martyred in 1170 to preserve his church's integrity, Ramsey served notice on the state that he would "ask for a greater freedom in the ordering and in the urgent revising of our forms of worship." In 1928 the House of Commons rejected the established church's request for permission to make changes in its liturgy in order to enforce more liturgical discipline upon clerics whose services ranged from quasi-Roman to semi-Congregational, according...