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...Bishop of Fulham has to be a special kind of bishop. His diocese covers some 800,000 square miles of northern Europe, from Biarritz to Iceland. His flock consists mainly of Englishmen-on-holiday, diplomatic service staffs, finishing-school girls, other British transients and trippers. His duties involve constant travel, and an interminable round of social occasions that would deepen the rings under the eyes of a gossip columnist. But the new Bishop of Fulham who was consecrated at St. Paul's this week could hardly wait to start his peripatetic...
...Unfortunate Custom." The bishopric of Fulham began in the days of Charles I, when a lonely chaplain in charge of the small English community at Ghent asked the Bishop of London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...past 21 years Fulham's bishop has been big, hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...
Bishop Wand's new post is sure to please sport-minded Anglicans. Onetime president of the Queensland Soccer Association, he expects to take an active interest in the Fulham Football Club-"if I am asked." In Brisbane, he once created a sensation by announcing that he had no objection to Sunday sports-providing that church was attended too. Said he: "If it is a sin to play games on Sunday, I am a sinner...
Laments and Regrets. The man who will be the 99th occupant of the Throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury received the press around the Christmas tree in Fulham Palace. His Lordship, a bald, long-eared, thin-lipped man, shoved the oldfashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles from his hooked nose to his forehead, jokingly lamented the terrifying job of moving in wartime, seriously lamented that anyone new should have to go to Lambeth Palace just now. Said he: "My great regret is that there should be this vacancy to fill. I knew Dr. Temple from the time when I was an undergraduate...