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Germany's great churchman, Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover, himself went to Dublin to install the new pastor ("He comes," said the bishop, "as a messenger of Christ"). Pastor Mittorp preaches to a community of 300 Lutherans in Dublin every other Sunday and on the Sundays in between, to 200 Lutherans in Belfast. His polyglot congregation is the first Lutheran church in Europe not organized on national lines. Says he: "This is the right way. The church should not be bound by nationalism but by ties of belief...
...hard to be too conservative as a churchman in Spain, but Seville's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz has managed it. He has lambasted Dictator Franco for being too nice to Protestants and for allowing the Falange to be too "anticlerical," he has looked nostalgically back at the Inquisition, has damned and damped down such pleasures as movies and dances in his archdiocese of Seville...
Besides Father Lévesque, St. Laurent planned to give Senate seats to a Protestant churchman and to eight other non-political figures in public life. Dr. Wilder Penfield, Montreal's famed U.S.-born neurosurgeon, was another prospect...
Died. The Rev. John C. Schroeder, 57, leading Congregational churchman, organizer (in 1946) and first chairman of Yale's department of religion, teacher in the Divinity School, author of articles and books (The Task of Religion, Modern Man and the Cross) which emphasized the social importance of religion; after a long illness; in New Haven, Conn. A critic of religious orthodoxy for its own sake, Dr. Schroeder believed that in their scramble for faith and religious security, postwar Americans had sacrificed the "moral naiveté" which had made his own generation "mount ethical horses and ride off rapidly...
...newly elected presidents of the World Council told part of the story. They included Henry Knox Sherrill, 63, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, a go-getting, kindly churchman who is used to fashionable Boston parishes but is also a pioneer fighter for Christian unity; tough old (74) Bishop Otto Dibelius of Germany's Evangelical Church, part of whose diocese is in the East zone and who has time and again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John...