Word: bishop
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Each story discussed the church as well as the man, chronicling emerging theology and internal discord as well as papal deeds. We always tried, however, to find the detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul...
...black leader will probably be Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, one of the three black members of Rhodesia's Executive Committee. The other two black members, Jeremiah Chirau and Bishop Abel Muzorewa, will come later. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, is expected to meet with them, government officials said...
...called internal settlement between blacks and whites, arguing that it "leaves the illegal white minority regime in effective control and gives it a veto over real change for the next decade." As it happens, two of the four leaders of the Rhodesian regime are W.C.C.-related black clergymen, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Ndabaningi Sithole, themselves recipients of past grants...
...young woman of not such good, but equally well-off family. They don't have just a photographer to record this less-than-historic occasion, an entire documentary film crew has been engaged to shoot it. And the presiding clergyman is not merely the local minister but a bishop no less, and what matter that his miter is sweat-stained or that he is senile...
DIED. Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Leningrad and Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...