Word: rectorate
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...Leigh Ribble was disturbed. His Grace and Holy Trinity Church in midtown Richmond, Va. seemed to be doing well; its generally well-off Episcopal parishioners were better-than-average churchgoers and they were raising their children to be credits to the community. But earnest Rector Ribble, 48, who also edits the weekly Southern Churchman, had a growing sense that between him and his congregation there were "barriers of language, of plain ignorance and of lack of conviction...
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...Melishes of Brooklyn were back in the news. Ever since the ouster two years ago of Rector John Howard Melish and his far-leftish son and assistant, William Howard, Brooklyn's Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity has been without a full-time rector. Meanwhile, nine anti-Melish vestrymen (whose petition to Long Island Bishop James Pernette De Wolfe led to the ouster) have been replaced in parish elections. Last week, by a vote of 119 to 11, the congregation handed the new vestrymen the name of the man they want for rector. The name: William Howard Melish. Further...
...rector proved equally gifted as a fundraiser, upped Trinity's average annual contribution to the national church to $30,000-$35,000 - one of the largest of any Episcopal parish in the country...
...World's Worst." The drinking had begun. During a college vacation at home he barged into St. John's Episcopal church during a Christmas service, staggered up to the pulpit and casually said to the rector: "Don't mind me, go on with the sermon." It was the first of many Fitzgerald toots that made the papers. From Princeton, in 1917, he went into the Army, never got overseas, but left a reputation at Fort Leavenworth as "the world's worst second lieutenant." In the Army he wrote his first novel, which was rejected by Scribner...