Word: dibeliuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pope Pius XII granted one audience last week that was not listed in Osservatore Romano, and from which the Vatican's photographer was barred. The visitor was Germany's leading Protestant prelate, stern, spike-bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius of the Evangelical Church...
What the Bishop of Rome and the Bishop of Berlin said to each other during their 15 minutes together is an official secret. But German Protestant circles in Rome had it that twice Dibelius raised the subject of Roman Catholic participation in the World Council of Churches, and twice the Pope replied firmly that Rome could not collaborate religiously with any group that puts the Catholic Church on the same level as other creeds...
...ller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church...
...violently opposed Adenauer's alignment with the West and campaigned against German rearmament, was discarded in favor of the Rev. Dr. Constantin von Dietze, 63, Cambridge-educated former rector of Freiburg University. Elected without opposition for another six-year term as chairman of the church council: Bishop Otto Dibelius...
...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 Baillie...