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...Africa have eight natives in the episcopate, and the million Anglicans in Central and East Africa have six more. The policy of advancing native Africans to the episcopate is not a recent Anglican practice; the first such was a rescued slave, Samuel Adjai Crowther, who was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral in 1864. He served as bishop on the Niger for 27 years...
RECTORS CLASH OVER HELL, bannered the Columbia Basin News, and the air was soon thick with theology. Kinsolving was within his rights, said some: Hell-lessness had been defended by churchmen from Origen (circa 185-254) to Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple (1881-1944). But Origen's teachings were condemned as heresy by the Second Council of Constantinople (553). May's backers recalled. "Kinsolving's theology is sensationalism," said one clergyman. "He preaches on sex and questions the virgin birth. He's completely different from the rest of us in every way-he gets...
Through eight months, the people of Cyprus have maintained an uneasy truce with the British authorities, awaiting the day when their cause would once again reach the floor of the United Nations. For weeks. Cyprus' exiled Archbishop Makarios has haunted Manhattan, a black-robed reminder of Cypriot demands. Last week, as debate started in New York, the island erupted with riots...
BISHOP JOHN KODWO AMISSAH, of the Cape Coast archdiocese in Ghana, was consecrated last June at the age of 35, less than eight years after he became a priest, and now serves as auxiliary to white Archbishop William Thomas Porter, 70. The archdiocese numbers 157,293 Roman Catholics, 27,158 taking instruction, and includes 82 priests (64 white, 18 Negro), with 40 parishes, three secondary schools, three teacher-training colleges, five hospitals and 329 primary schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs...
Indulgence v. Martyrdom. Not all churchmen were of the archbishop's mind. "There is no more baneful or contagious an influence in the world," said the Lord Bishop of Rochester, "than that which emanates from homosexual practice. There are such things as sodomy clubs. There was one in Oxford between the wars and another in Cambridge, which shamelessly sported a tie, [but] I cannot believe with the most reverend Primate that the best way of getting rid of these clubs is to indulge them...