Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Episcopal Bishop of the California diocese, with full rubric and laying on of hands, had conferred on a Methodist minister-not Episcopal orders but episcopal orders. As a result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy, George Hedley, 60, is the well-beloved, brilliant father figure and campus character of California's small (700 students) Mills College for women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor...
...main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
...doubt that in the whole of our canon law there is a more complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes to be a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church without losing his membership in another denomination, or (as in Hedley's case) who intends to remain a minister and function as such in his original denomination...
Answering blasts came from the Catholic press. "Protestant misrepresentatives like Bishop Pike," said the Catholic News, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, differ from the Ku Klux Klan "only in degree." The Brooklyn Tablet, another diocesan paper, said it would be "the Fifth Essence of Arrogance-the kind that foretells madness," for the U.S. to allow other nations to believe that Americans want to encourage a slowdown of other peoples' population growth...
...husband, a railroad brakeman (played by Painter Larry Rivers), comes home. He has invited a High Church bishop for tea. The bishop is like 20 years old, and he brings his mother. Not all the Beats are pleased. Ginsberg: "I'll go in the bathroom and watch television." Corso wonders if the bishop knows about "beer bottles that come in magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters...