Word: archdeacons
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...Claire, Wis. was regularized the Episcopal status of Rev. Dr. John William Charles Toch Torok, 45, once a Hungarian Uniat Catholic priest. Imprisoned as a political suspect during Hungary's revolution, Dr. Torok escaped to the U. S. In 1921 he became a Hungarian Orthodox archdeacon in Fond du Lac, Wis., then an Episcopal priest. In 1924 he was consecrated Bishop in Vienna, by a Czechoslovak and a Serbian Orthodox Bishop. The Episcopalians of Wisconsin elected Dr. Torok suffragan Bishop...
...permanent See, without additional jurisdiction, from which the spiritual affairs of the church may be wisely and disinterestedly guided. . . . Frankly I cannot fathom the concern sometimes expressed in the use of one of the most ancient, democratic and venerable titles of the Christian Church. Nobody is fearful of an archdeacon. The most democratic people in the world have lived and prospered under the leadership of an arch-bishop...
...Cambridge dean, a League of Nations secretary, a big game hunter, an archdeacon, a vice admiral, an Episcopal bishop's son, an Anglican bishop's sister, numerous Oxonians and Hon. Carl Vrooman of Bloomington, 111. To newshawks last week Frank Buchman declared: "Not one of us is employed. Yet we have managed to come across. I have not received a salary since 1922, but I manage somehow to live out of my seven suitcases. ... I haven't any idea of where all the money comes from...
...Paul Jones, archdeacon of Utah, was chosen to succeed Bishop Spalding...
...Episcopal Church House, Philadelphia, last week Archdeacon the Rev. James F. Bullitt, uncle of the new Ambassador, flared: "The United States has disgraced itself by establishing relations with a country which is beyond the palea pariah among nations...