Word: rectorate
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...good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Western Texas. He declined the elections...
Haddon is a Conservative, and in the campaign for the election of Sir John Gilmour to the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, he was abducted by the Liberals and held captive. Haddon has served as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and is a member of the International Committee of the Students' Representative Councils of Scotland. Haddon is also head of the travel department of that organization in Edinburgh...
February 12--The Reverend Karl Railand, Rector of St. George's Church, New York City...
...James Palmer, long associate rector at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and now a professor in the exceedingly orthodox Biblical Seminary in Manhattan, put the preacher's temptation into blunt words last week: "I could have become rich if I had married all the divorced persons who wanted to be wed. At the Fifth Avenue Church there were hundreds of divorced couples who presented themselves for marriage. Some came to see me; others telephoned. Not a small number were wealthy and, though they never, in my experience, actually offered extraordinary fees for the performance of the service...
Chairman Brent. This man was Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the Episcopal diocese of Western New York. Canadian-born and educated, naturalized in the U. S., an obscure worker in the awkward robes of the Cowley Fathers among the poor of Boston, later (under Bishop Phillips Brooks) an Episcopal rector who was made a missionary bishop and sent to the Philippines because of his earnest simplicity, rugged strength and adaptability among people of other races, it was Bishop Brent who confirmed General Pershing in the Philippines and subsequently became Chaplain-in-Chief...