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Last week an answer came from a high quarter: England's second-ranking prelate, the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York. Wrote the 72-year-old Archbishop in his new book, The Claims of the Church of England: There is at present a "tendency towards totalitarianism in the State. The State increasingly exercises control over every department of the life of the community. It is not likely that the Church will escape from this movement. Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible...
Tall, stooping Rt. Rev. William Marshall Selwyn is only worried about one thing: carfare. To visit the 80 chaplains in his far-flung see will take him at least two years of diligent travel. His Church of England stipend of $5,000 a year does not allow for much travel after living expenses have been paid. Even though he has a small private income, Bishop Selwyn hopes his episcopal gaiters will help him hitch many a plane or car ride. He plans to take his wife "only when I can afford...
...past 21 years Fulham's bishop has been big, hearty Rt. Rev. Basil Batty, who found the job "hard work, but very pleasant." Lately, however, the going has been tough. In a plane from Moscow recently he found the stratosphere too much for his 74 years and resigned in favor of 67-year-old Youngster Selwyn, an ex-chaplain...
...special convention of the diocese last week, the 1,000-odd clerical and lay delegates reached an obvious compromise. As new Bishop of New York they elected tall, cigaret-smoking Rt. Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, suffragan* bishop under Bishop Manning for the past 16 years. Bishop Gilbert knows his big, heterogeneous flock inside out, has maintained an average of 2,200 confirmations a year since becoming suffragan bishop. His chief drawback as a candidate was, paradoxically, a major factor in getting him elected. Bishop Gilbert is 68-which gives him only 3½ years in office before compulsory retirement...
...confused with the diocese of Western Massachusetts, the see of the Rt. Rev. William A. Lawrence...