Word: visser
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...bearded Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks, and delegations from the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorians of Iraq and Syria, the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia...
John did nothing to remove the great doctrinal obstacles that bar the way to ecumenical unity; but by his example of love he encouraged church leaders and scholars to join in discovering how much of the Christian faith they shared. Says Dr. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council: "He changed the history of church relations...
Much in contrast to his years as a back room scholar. Cardinal Bea now keeps himself as much in the public eye as his 81 years permit. He answers more than 2,000 letters a year, and has become good friends with such non-Catholic clergymen as Willem Visser Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches; the Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, retired Archbishop of Canterbury; and Franklin Clark Fry, who last week was elected first president of the newly merged Lutheran Church in America...
...Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church, Dwight Eisenhower, is honorary chairman of the celebration. Among the many churchmen who have agreed to lecture at Princeton in the coming months are such famed non-Presbyterians as Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth...
...more dynamic than Amsterdam in 1948 or Evanston in 1954," said Manhattan Lawyer Charles Parlin, the Methodist layman who will serve as one of the Council's presidents. "It has been an extremely serious, united effort of giving directives for work." The Council's General Secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft (TIME cover, Dec. 8), agreed that "we have received pretty clear marching orders," although, he added cautiously, "some of them will have to be worked out a little further...