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...Speculation about retirement also surrounds the leader of world Anglicanism, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Most of his predecessors have held, Pope-like, to their posts until death. But the previous archbishop, Geoffrey Fisher, resigned in 1961 right after one of his great achievements, the historic visit to Pope John XXIII. Incumbent Archbishop Michael Ramsey, 67, is rumored to be considering a similar move if this week's Anglican Synod approves his dream of a merger with the Methodists in Great Britain. The merger failed once before to achieve the necessary 75% approval, however, and prospects this time look little...
...demonstrators--members of the African Research Group and HR New American Movement--circulated outside the Club, located at 374 Commonwelath Ave., while the Archbishop of Boston was inside receiving the Military Order of Christ from the Portuguese Ambassador to the United States...
Four hundred people attended the dinner in honor of Archbishop Humberto Medeiros, who was born in Portugal. The program said the Order was conferred because Medeiros "has attained unique distinction as a humanitarian, scholar, theologian and as a Christian soldier working in behalf of the faith of the land of his birth...
They intermittently chanted. "The Archbishop's Supporting War." "Your Cross is one of Racist Hate," and "Harvard Out of Gulf." Spectators from inside the club peered out at the picketers, and several of them came outside to vehemently argue with the demonstrators...
Members of the African Research Group will march tonight at the Harvard Club protesting the Portuguese Ambassador's presentation at the Club of the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Portugal to Archbishop of Boston Medeiros...