Word: revs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in that "Apostolic Succession" by which bishops derive their spiritual powers from an unbroken line of bishops dating back to the time of Christ. Methodists feel a Methodist bishop is just a plain man in an ordi- nary business suit who puts "Bishop" rather than "Rt. Rev." or "Most Rev." before his name. He is not attached for life to any one diocese but may be transferred from one Methodist "area" to an-other by the conference which elects him. Last week in Columbus, Ohio the 3 2nd quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected...
Next day, at a portable altar deep in flowers, Rev. Paul Schulte celebrated the world's first aerial Mass. He ended the service with thanks to "God at the helm." Three icebergs were spotted in the afternoon. As the ship passed through the cold air above them, its electric radiators were switched on. That night, after most passengers were asleep, the Hindenburg ran through a severe squall, held so steady no one was awakened...
...That Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin is not as politically dead as newspaper readers believe was indicated in Philadelphia last week when Representative Michael J. Stack, running with Coughlin endorsement against the bitter opposition of the potent Kelly machine, won a Democratic renomination to the House...
...Hugh L. Lamb, chancellor of the archdiocese since 1926, was consecrated auxiliary bishop, assuming the post Bishop O'Hara relinquished when he was sent to Georgia. Another prelate from the tight, self-sufficient archdiocese of Philadelphia's Denis Cardinal Dougherty moved up in the hierarchy when Most Rev. George Leo Leech became Bishop of Harrisburg, succeeding the late Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt. After a month at his new job Bishop Leech astounded his 200 priests by calling each correctly by his first name as he knelt to kiss the Episcopal ring...
...died. To select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over 20 might take part. The voting took place last November. Apparent winner was a onetime professor at the American College in Beirut named Rev. Antony Bashir, who had meanwhile served as provisional Patriarchal representative...