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...Paul, would be of little import to most of the guests on Ascension Day. One might seek to become a "National Shrine," the other a "House of Worship for All People." But in the eyes of the national Episcopal Church they were the same as any of the other diocesan cathedrals in the land...
...Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words would carry weight all over England, he warned the London Diocesan Congress thus: "The credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the country goes wrong . . . the pound will fall to five shillings within 24 hours, to a shilling within a week and to a penny within a month...
...seclusion last week the rector of a rich, socialite church was trying to decide whether he wanted to be a Bishop Coadjutor. The diocese of Connecticut had none; since 1928 Bishop Edward Campion Acheson had been his own Coadjutor. Now he had found he needed an assistant. A diocesan convention was held in Christ Church Cathedral. Hartford. Chief candidates were High Churchman Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.); Low Churchman Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine who a week before had been...
...Pope Pius XI gave it one last April, appointed Dr. Gorman to be Bishop. Born in Pasadena, Calif, in 1892, Dr. Gorman had taken the degree Doctor of Historical Sciences at the University of Louvain, Belgium, had been assigned to several Southern California parishes, had edited since 1926 the diocesan paper Tidings. Consecrated in St. Vibiana Cathedral in Los Angeles (he will be installed in Reno this month), he was the first local priest to be elevated to the episcopacy. To see the ceremony came thousands; assisting in it were Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San Francisco and the Bishops...
Last week's diocesan convention, at York, Pa., struggled through eight ballots. The clergy wanted, out of nine proposed candidates, Frederick P. Houghton, rector of St. John's Church, Lancaster, Pa. The laymen wanted Wyatt Brown, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo. Dean Brown, 46, married, won. He was confidently expected to accept...