Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing this, the Church of England's official Jubilee Prayer, the Most Reverend Father in God Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, last week stressed especially the concept of "unfeigned thanks...
...last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale. For the cattle no one bid a farthing. Presently the farmers formed a procession, moved down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with...
...Catholic authorities gave in, allowed Brother Andre to purchase, with funds donated, a plot opposite the college, build a small wooden kiosk. By this time superstitious folk believed a story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned...
When the World War broke, Venizelos brought up against the Danish stubbornness of Greece's Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg King Constantine I, who favored Germany. He hypocritically maintained "a very benevolent neutrality" toward the Allies. Pro-ally Venizelos was anathematized by an Archbishop of the Greek Church...
Last week Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha was appointed Archbishop of New Orleans, succeeding the late Most Rev. John William Shaw. Like many another member of the Western hierarchy, Bishop Rummel held his first pastorates in New York. German-born 59 years ago, long an able shepherd of German-American flocks, he now takes one which is largely French-Creole...