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...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...
...Geoffrey Grigson, editor of England's New Verse magazine: "Nothing new has happened in this war. Men have been tortured, women have been murdered, explosives have exploded. . . . That helps one, not to be indifferent, which is impossible, but not to be taken in ... by the lewd rhetoric of a war. . . . In this country, the Black Militia of the Pen ask where the war poets are; and they only mean, where are the thumps on the tub, the morale poems...
...grey-haired old man slipped unnoticed into St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A centuries-old ceremony, the service to confirm the election of Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher as Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, Jan. 15), was under...
Jobs and Politics. The son of a Nuneaton (Warwickshire) parish priest, Geoffrey Fisher won honors at Oxford by working hard. Ever since, he has had an easy time of it, falling into one job after another. The first was a three-year stretch as an assistant master at Marlborough, his old school. Then he started in William Temple's footsteps: he succeeded him as headmaster of Repton School. Finally, with an agility that left many a churchman popeyed, Fisher in 1932 stepped directly from 21 years of schoolmastering into the Bishopric of Chester...