Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decades Maude Royden has preached vigorous sermons in and out of a church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services...
First Citizen's Rector...
Your article this week, Dec. 7, under Religion with reference to my call to become Rector of St. Thomas' Church in Washington contains two erroneous statements which might be misconstrued...
...parson armed with a .45 and doing that job. Second, while true that I have not had the honor to meet the First Citizen of this country and the most distinguished parishioner at St. Thomas' Church, you are quite in error when you state that the choice of Rector was made by St. Thomas' Vestry "sight unseen"; they both saw and heard. I have never preached in St. Thomas' Church, nor have I attended a service there, but their new Rector was on inspection, just the same. They came: They...
...Rector-elect, St. Thomas' Church...