Word: stopford
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There were also plenty of churchmen more willing to give Billy his due. Among them was London's Anglican Bishop Robert Stopford, a high churchman who has previously been cool to the idea of the crusade. "We hope and pray," he said, "that the great influence of Dr. Graham's personality and message will be lasting in the lives of very many people...
...Dean Walter Matthews. With appropriate portentousness, the dean questioned the assemblage: Should the election be "by acclamation, by scrutiny or by compromise"? It was decided that it should be "by scrutiny," i.e., secret ballot. And that was odd, as Tweedledum might say, because the Bishop of Peterborough, Robert W. Stopford, had already been chosen by the Queen to be Bishop of London. If the assembled prelates in St. Paul's dared vote against him, they would be subject to imprisonment, loss of civil rights and forfeiture of possessions, under the law of praemunire instituted by Henry VIII to keep...
...jumped Canon Lewis J. Collins of St. Paul's, a passionate ban-the-bomber with no love for Dr. Stopford, who has publicly opined that nuclear war would be preferable to Communist domination. Cried Canon Collins: "The Crown, on the advice of the Prime Minister, has nominated the Bishop of Peterborough as the new Bishop of London. The nomination has been announced in the press. Now we are called upon to elect a new bishop, and custom requires that we pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our task. But we know that if we fail...
Ignoring the outraged canon, the prelates duly prayed for guidance and voted for Stopford, though Dean Matthews admitted there were "two or three abstentions." But most of them agreed with Collins' humiliating point. And the fact that he made it, observers noted, was a stout blow for the cause of disestablishment-the separation of Anglican Church and British state-whose most potent protagonist is Arthur Michael Ramsey, the new Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, July...