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Final Cards. Rumors were soon circulating through the Middle East that Russian promises had succeeded in lining up the votes of eight of the twelve attending archbishops-who are responsible for electing one of three candidates nominated by a council of religious and lay delegates. The Communists also circulated reports of an American imperialist plot to take over the patriarchate with Archbishop Antony Bashir of New York (a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon). The Reds played their final cards two days before the election, when a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow donated some $8,000 to "victims...
When election day finally came, 60 delegates assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly...
...Next the archbishops were locked into the Cathedral of Mariameyeh to vote on one of the three top candidates. Within 30 minutes, the result was announced: Tripoli's Archbishop Abu Rajaili became Patriarch Theodosios...
...thorniest problems and greatest opportunities. It is also considered likely that, in addition to Boston's Richard J. Gushing and Philadelphia's John F. O'Hara, Pope John will name more cardinals in the U.S.-almost certainly in Chicago, the largest U.S. archdiocese of all, whose Archbishop Albert Meyer (TIME, Oct. 6) was thought by some to be still too new in his post for inclusion in last week's list...
...state of the church in Latin America in giving cardinals for the first time to Uruguay and Mexico, 2) stiffened the church's position against the Reds by appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope's prima creatura...