Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ignacio Valdespino, Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico, a good Roman Catholic, died last week in San Antonio, Texas. The Most Rev. Arthur Jerome Drossaerts, archbishop of San Antonio, pronounced a funeral sermon at a solemn requiem mass in San Fernando cathedral. It was a pronouncement not limited to laudations of the dead man's character. Archbishop Drossaerts pointed out that Bishop Valdespino had belonged to the colony of Catholic refugees who had fled to San Antonio from the Mexican government. He commented on the poverty in which many of them have died, saying that the Most Rev. Jose Mora...
...third week of their Quadrennial General Conference at Kansas City, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct. He was charged with having made personal use of funds given to him for supposedly charitable purposes. For it, he had been convicted abroad and sentenced to three months in jail by a civil court...
Dedham Club No. 1, Bishop: No. 2, Hopewell: No. 3, Clark: No. 4, Hamlin...
...Heard Bishop Fisher of India saying: "What we need is to restore the passion of the Church in a world-wide mission and lift Christ above the entanglements of the nations," and pointing out that college students regard missions, missionaries, and missionary work with complete and dismal apathy...
Died. Ignacio Valdespino y Diaz, 67, exiled Bishop of Aguascalientes, Mexico; of heart disease; at San Antonio, Tex. His death follows by three weeks that of his companion-in-exile, Archbishop Jose Mora...