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...diocese is said to be on the boil," says the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark. "If that is so, I accept it as a compliment. Boiling water is better than tepid. It can cleanse and generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop...
...Southwark slices the British social system from top to bottom. It starts on the tough Thames River docks in the heart of London, runs south through the vast, scruffy slums of Bermondsey, and courses along the commuter train tracks to green suburban Surrey, where Tudor estates and Bentleys abound. An estimated 550,000 confirmed Anglicans live in the diocese. Where the wealthy Establishment stockbrokers reside, the churches-and collection plates-are full, but in the populous working-class parishes, the pews have never been full...
...Bishop. Stockwood came to Southwark in 1959 from a post as vicar of Great St. Mary's, Cambridge University's church, where he often sported bow ties instead of dog collar and packed in undergraduate congregations for guest addresses by such speakers as the Labor Party's Aneurin Bevan and anti-apartheid Bishop Trevor Huddleston. He took his informality right along with him to Southwark. He sometimes takes a morning dip with early-rising parishioners at an open-air pool before starting a full Sunday's work. Once, by appointment, he called, wearing layman...
Last week Thomas' 30-year career as a cleric came to an end in a formal unfrocking ceremony in London's medieval Southwark Cathedral. While a choir chanted a somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy...
Because he left $5,600 of his estimated $15 million estate to London's Southwark Cathedral, Oscar Hammerstein II will be honored by the designation of two choirboys as "Hammerstein Chanters," and by a plaque "To the glory of God and in memory of Oscar Hammerstein, citizen of the United States of America, playwright and lyricist." Among the other assorted literary types honored in the ancient church: William Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, John Harvard...