Word: triennially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This historic election and many other decisions occupied the most arduous week of the Triennial Convention...
House of Bishops convene a final court of appeal to which to carry his case. The Bishops have before declined to convene this court which is optionally provided for in the constitution of the Church. In this case it would have meant three years delay, to the next triennial convention before the machinery of the court could be approved. The Bishops declined to call the court. They allowed Bishop Brown to plead his case-to argue for half an hour that he had not had a fair trial, but his lawyer was not admitted. Then a vote...
...bishops, Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee, rose and read a sermon by another bishop, Theodore Dubose Bratton of Mississippi-a defense of the faith, a plea for the maintenance of the creed of the apostles. Thus at Audubon Park, New Orleans, was opened the 48th Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America...
Churchmen are solemnly considering the removal of the "little joker" from the Episcopal marriage service. Wives need no longer promise to obey their husbands, if the proposed revision of the marriage ceremony recommended by Bishop Coadjutor Slattery of Massachusetts be adopted by the Episcopal Triennial General Convention which is to meet at New Orleans today...
...commission under Bishop Charles L. Slattery of Massachusetts has done an immense amount of scholarly work in revision of the ancient forms of worship which are collectively known as the Prayer Book. Many of the suggestions of the commission are likely to receive final sanction at the coming Triennial. Typical changes...