Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, more than 27 million have been baptized in the Church of England, but fewer than 10 million have been confirmed, and fewer than 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls. If these facts might seem to argue that the church should win back its flock, the newest Archbishop of Canterbury, on his enthronement last week, made no sign that he will attempt to spoon-feed religion or pretend that Christianity is another kind of tranquilizer. Arthur Michael Ramsey, a man with a single-minded devotion to God,* made clear that it is up to the people to come...
Divines from the East. The enthronement of the 100th Archbishop was a splendid ceremony. Never in history had the Anglican Communion rallied such a massing of the cloth as turned out at the 800-year-old Canterbury Cathedral to honor the new Primate of All England. More than 1,000 prelates walked in a mile-long procession to the clamor of bells, their many-colored robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among...
...white-fringed head made him look much older than 56. From Canterbury's "Red" Dean, 87-year-old Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to the grey marble Chair of St. Augustine,† on which each Archbishop of Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm...
...accept only the directives of my archbishop [Cardinal Mindszenty, who ever since the 1956 revolt has been a refugee in the U.S. legation], and he is not now in a position to give me directives...
...Father Lenard's defiant colloquy with the judge was vivid testimony to the fact that the Christian faith is a stubborn adversary, even for Communism's ruthless men. Upon news of the arrests, Budapest's Archbishop Joseph Grosz, acting head of the Hungarian clergy, fired off a letter to the government. "If the arrested priests are guilty," he said, "then I, too, must be guilty. Arrest me and put me in prison with my friends." Prudently, the government chose to ignore the dare...