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...highest ranking official in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. is the Presiding Bishop???at present Rhode Island's Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry. The ranking diocese, Episcopalians agree, is that of New York, now ruled by Bishop William Thomas Manning. But several individual churches pay their rectors more than they do their bishops. Of these, none is older, none richer than Trinity Church at the top of Wall Street in Manhattan...
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP???Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...
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