Word: episcopalian
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...education in his twenty-second year" when he arrived in Massachusetts three years after the landing of the Mayflower. The son of the Reverend John Maverick of Exeter, England, often called "the godly Mr. Maverick," he had been appointed a royal commissioner for the Massachusetts settlements. As a strict Episcopalian, he often upset the Puritans of Boston and the other diverse communities and was a frequent antagonist of John Winthrop...
Methodist 102 Roman Catholic 99 Presbyterian 81 Baptist 61 Episcopalian 60 Congregationalist 24 Lutheran 17 Other Protestant 73 Jewish...
...suggestion to our congregation if they wish to be formal is to call me 'Mister Nims' or, if they prefer, since many are from the South, 'Preacher Nims' or 'Brother Nims.' " Lutheran ministers are properly called "pastor" and, although some high-church Episcopalians prefer to be called "father," most agree with the verse written by Episcopalian Henry Lewis, chaplain at the University of Michigan's Medical Center...
Then the 21-year-old son of the Episcopalian Bishop of Syracuse, Chub Peabody was described by Dick Harlow as "the finest guard I've ever seen" in his lengthy career as football coach at Harvard...
...died in 1955, his widow took over the editorship of the St. Luke magazine, Sharing, and Price became the order's warden. According to Ethel Banks, the number of U.S. churches offering healing services has grown steadily, from 14 in 1947 to 460 today (about 95% of them Episcopalian). The order now has 4,200 members in 85 countries...