Word: eidem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First order of business at the meeting was the unanimous election of Norway's 65-year-old Lutheran Primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, to succeed aged former Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden as one of the World Council's six presidents. Bishop Berggrav became something of a legend of Christian resistance during the war. Imprisoned by the Nazis in his summer cottage from 1942 to 1947, he still managed to direct the affairs of the underground church by escaping from his barbed-wire enclosure to meet with its leaders at night (TIME...