Word: titular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries the Church of England has been tied, in one way or another, to the British state. The King, as titular head of the Church, still nominally appoints bishops and deans; Parliament must pass on the smallest change in the Book of Common Prayer; ecclesiastical court cases may be appealed to civil courts. Such a state of affairs was once natural enough. But many a modern Englishman now asks: is it suitable in a modern socialist state...
...Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses the Tweed...
Died. Metropolitan Eulogius (born: Vasiliy Georgievsky), 78, grey-bearded Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Paris, titular head of all Russian Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe and North Africa; in Paris. Eulogius broke with the Moscow church in 1931, accepted the Patriarch of Constantinople as his chief until 1945, when he returned to the Soviet fold...
Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...
Although this made Attorney General Kenny titular head of the state Democrats, and automatically a plotter for Warren's downfall, he got along well with the Governor. With his usual unorthodoxy he had crossed party lines to back Warren in a previous campaign...