Word: synods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orthodox Synod proceeded to excommunicate temporarily almost every Orthodox member of the Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...
...convocation accomplished nothing that it set out to do. For the King, scenting an attempt to undermine his god-given authority in a proposal that a synod be substituted for bishops, broke up the meeting in a huff, and threatened non-conformers to "harry them out of the land, or worse." Yet that Hampton Court Conference goes down in history as a high water mark for the English language, for before the King had sent the delegates packing, a plan had been drawn up for a new translation of the Bible...
Howard David Higgins of the Reformed Episcopal Church, which has 8,200 members in the U. S. The entire hierarchy of his church in North America did the consecrating: Bishop Frank V. C. Cloak of the Chicago Synod, Bishop Joseph Edgar Kearney of the "Missionary Jurisdiction" of South Carolina, Bishop George Marshall of the First Synod of Canada (affiliated with the Free Church of England). Bishop Higgins was made Assistant Bishop of the New York and Philadelphia Synod, a confusing title since he will actually run the Synod, assisting no one. Episcopal mainly in that it uses the Prayer Book...
...half a century Rev. Adolf William Meyer of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Yonkers, N. Y. has kept conscientiously shipshape. Last week he uprose to tell 150 fellow clergymen of the Atlantic District of the United Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States, sitting in Manhattan, how to preach successful sermons. First he counseled them to "get a good sleep Saturday night," warned them that "a torpid liver produces a dull sermon." To this admonition spry, old Dr. Meyer added four "don'ts" for lively preachers...
...Should the United Lutheran Church make bishops, as in Europe, of the heads of its 34 synods? President Knubel was dubious, pointing out that synod presidents are elected for terms, whereas bishops should hold their posts for life. The convention appointed a special commission to study the question, report at the 1938 meeting...