Word: archbishop
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Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the Most Reverend Father in God, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England, was, next to King Henry VIII, the most powerful man in the realm. But he was also still the poor boy from Ipswich who had constantly to prove himself. It was only natural, therefore, that when he decided to establish a private residence just outside London, it should be the most sumptuous one in the land. In 1514, he picked a site a few miles down the Thames from London. There stood a small manor belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John...
...large majority of Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen were sharply hostile toward the decision. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, pronounced himself "shocked and frightened.'' The decision, he said, "strikes at the very heart of the Godly tradition in which America's children have for so long been raised." Evangelist Billy Graham condemned the ruling as "another step toward secularism." A conference of 120 Protestant Episcopal clergymen from Long Island churches adopted a resolution saying: "The ultimate effect of this decision may be to nullify and threaten with destruction the American people...
...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...
Spain's conservative and puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...
...slow chess match between the old and the new in Africa, white bishops are being replaced by black bishops. Last week the Most Rev. Robert Dosseh, 37, was made Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lome, in Togo. Ten days before, the Most Rev. Raymond Tchidimbo. 42, in a similar ceremony, was elevated to the see of Conakry in Guinea. Earlier. Hyacinthe Thiandoum. 41, became Archbishop of Dakar in Senegal and Luc Sangare, 36, was named to the diocese of Bamako in Mali. The four consecrations completed something of an ecclesiastical revolution, for all four men are sons of West African tribes...