Word: archbishop
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Falling Villages. Cyprus had been at Hash point for weeks, as Greeks and Turks pumped in men and arms to bolster both factions on the island. Archbishop Makarios' Greek Cypriot regime, emboldened by its new strength, had cut off the water supply to the Turkish quarter in Ktima, went so far as to break the telephone connection between Nicosia and Ankara. Then one day, at the very center of Nicosia, on the Green Line along Paphos Street, the Turkish Cypriots decided to move their sandbagged post a few yards toward the Greek Cypriot positions. The Greeks retaliated by setting...
...United Nations commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, complained to Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios that his U.N. peacekeeping force was hamstrung by Greek Cypriot restrictions. Typically, Makarios was polite and evasive. The U.N. contingents had no intention of standing in the middle of a shooting war: indeed, their governments had threatened to fly the men home...
Among the 2,500 mostly learned and lordly Roman Catholic bishops around the world, English Archbishop Thomas d'Esterre Roberts, 71, is an independent spirit who feels free to put churchly propositions up to the measure of his own reason. He has no use for pomp, and to discourage people from kissing his episcopal ring, he jokes, "I carry it in my back pocket...
Last week he was at Seattle University, wreathed in a cloud of Salem smoke, sitting at a desk littered with matchbooks, letters and Agatha Christie novels. He would rather have been in Southern California. But the arch-conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, banned the liberal Roberts from lecturing there. Roberts took it philosophically: "Cardinal Mclntyre is in charge and is entitled to his own views as to what is expedient and what...
...Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...