Word: suffragan
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...suffragan bishop of the nation's most blueblooded Episcopal diocese is the son of a dining-car waiter on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his consecration two weeks ago as one of the two auxiliaries to Boston Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., the Rt. Rev John Melville Burgess became the first Negro† ever to serve the Protestant Episcopal Church as spiritual leader in a predominantly white diocese...
...Episcopalians were impressed. "This sort of thing is soul-destroying," said the Rev. Bernard G. Buley of Waukesha, Wis. "A very strange world," mused the Rev. John G. Forrell of Glen Ridge, NJ. "I would not know how to talk to these men and women." Suffragan Bishop Charles F. Boynton of New York summed it up: "This has done us a lot of good. We normally don't realize that so many human beings are riveted to one operation with no opportunity to exercise creativity or imagination...
...Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
...London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...kinds of assistant bishop, a coadjutor automatically succeeds his chief; a suffragan does...