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...into the open. Chicago traditionally has a High-Church bishop, though its richest parishes (St. Chrysostom's, St. James's, St. Paul's in Chicago; Holy Spirit, Lake Forest; Christ, Winnetka) are Low-Church. High-Church candidate was a handsome monk, the Right Rev. Spence Burton, Suffragan Bishop of Haiti. Low-Church candidate was a handsome rector, Dr. Dudley Scott Stark of St. Chrysostom's. In 17 ballots, neither could muster a majority. Nor could a middle-reader, Dr. Harold L. Bowen of St. Mark's, Evanston...
Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
...monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
...elect Kroll was consecrated by an exceedingly noteworthy company of his Episcopal colleagues. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry was the consecrator. Co-consecrators were retiring Bishop Campbell of Liberia and Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. Bishop Robert Emmet Gribbin of western North Carolina was the gospeler; Suffragan Bishop Charles Kendall Gilbert of New York, the Epistler. Bishop Paul Matthews of New Jersey and Suffragan Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd of New York presented the candidate for consecration. Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island preached the sermon...
...revolution, Dr. Torok escaped to the U. S. In 1921 he became a Hungarian Orthodox archdeacon in Fond du Lac, Wis., then an Episcopal priest. In 1924 he was consecrated Bishop in Vienna, by a Czechoslovak and a Serbian Orthodox Bishop. The Episcopalians of Wisconsin elected Dr. Torok suffragan Bishop...