Word: episcopalian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...Episcopalians. Except for its close linkage to the English Government, the Church of England's organization is practically that of the Protestant Episcopalian Church in the U. S., and the Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government...
...next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...
...John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is the biggest cathedral in the U. S. Like its sister Episcopalian cathedral at Washington, it too seeks money ($15,000,000), and from the same clientele. Last week St. John the Divine's committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet...
...church organizations in sympathy with his efforts to obtain for modest "sky pilots," Army rankings which they consider commensurate with the spiritual plane of their duties. Should Chief of Chaplains Axton, the Utah Congregationalist, be retired, next in line for his post would be Chaplain E. P. Easterbrook, Methodist Episcopalian now stationed at Fort Sam Houston...