Word: bishops
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...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
Last week, in a Manhattan hospital, death came to Bishop Manning at 83. For his final sermon as Bishop of New York, he had chosen a text (I Corinthians, 16:13) that might well be his epitaph: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong...
...Bishop Manning also had his monument : upper Manhattan's soaring, French-Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Divine-second largest church in the world (the largest: Rome's St. Peter's). By indefatigably begging funds from Protestants of all denominations, as well as from Catholics and Jews, he managed to raise some $15 million for the ninth-of-a-mile-long cathedral, now nearly completed...
When the Episcopal General Convention of 1943 set a compulsory retirement age of 72 for bishops, Bishop Manning, then 77, set his jaw, insisted that the convention's ruling could not be retroactive. He promised his parishioners that he would "continue to serve you as your bishop as long as I am given sufficient health and strength." Three years later, declining in health and full of years, he resigned...
Died. The Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning, 83, Episcopal Bishop (until 1947) of the New York diocese; in Manhattan (see RELIGION...