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Absent Eminences. Its immediate purpose was to prepare an agenda for another meeting, which would in turn prepare an agenda for a full-dress synod-the first in more than ten centuries. At this synod, the patriarchs themselves will make canon law on such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom...
...choosing Scharf to succeed crusty Bishop Otto Dibelius last February as head of the Evangelical Church, the synod bore in mind his reputation for dealing with the Reds in a way that won their grudging respect. Said one top Communist official: "Give me Scharf rather than any other churchman. At least I understand what he wants." And in office Kurt Scharf has been uniquely free to attend church meetings across the border-even on occasion to go abroad, as he did for the enthronement of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Methodists), but it is a gain of only 1.7% compared to the average Lutheran gain of 3.1% during the past ten years. Largest numerical increase of the 14 reporting church bodies was registered, as it has been for the past 16 years, by the 2,469,036-member Missouri Synod, which had 57% of all the new Lutherans...
...General Synod in its first meeting maintained its ecumenical momentum by issuing an invitation for union to the Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church...
...terms of quality, however, the seminary picture is brighter; there are indications that the young men called to the ministry today are keener of mind and firmer of purpose than their predecessors. Many seminaries are raising their entrance requirements-among them, the Missouri Synod Lutherans' Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, whose dean, the Reverend Leonard C. Wuerffel, feels that the current crop of seminarians are being better trained than they have been in at least 20 years...