Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post made vacant when Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher became Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April 30). The Bishop of London, who holds one of the five permanent ecclesiastical seats in the House of Lords, must be elected (although the election is only a formality) by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral before his nomination can officially take effect...
...Married. Geoffrey Parsons Jr., 36, smart, stocky editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, son of the home edition's smart chief editorial writer; and Dorothy Lee Blackman Tartiere, blonde, American ex-cinemactress, who spent the German occupation helping Allied flyers to hide from the Gestapo ; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris...
Said Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, in a diocesan letter which the London Times reprinted last week: ". . . The most unendurable revelation of what has been done in concentration camps has not only shocked us, but shows us how perverted her people are. For the people as a whole cannot be acquitted of knowledge and of acquiescence. But we must not allow ourselves to think that there are no good Germans. Let us always remember that thousands of Germans suffered and died in those camps in their resistance to the Nazi regime...
...virtue of this mandate, I ... do induct, install and enthrone you, Most Reverend Father in God, Geoffrey . . . into the archbishopric and the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...personage addressed, wearing a miter and a white brocaded cope with gold embroidery, walked slowly to the 700-year-old marble Chair of St. Augustine, sat gingerly down on its red cushion. With this simple act the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, last week became the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England...