Word: bashir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over 20 might take part. The voting took place last November. Apparent winner was a onetime professor at the American College in Beirut named Rev. Antony Bashir, who had meanwhile served as provisional Patriarchal representative...
...Orthodox Church at Toledo, Ohio last week bells pealed, peppery incense swirled, the congregation shouted "Oxiose, Oxiose!" ["Son of the Church!"], and Orthodox U. S. Syrians had a new spiritual leader. But the man who was thus consecrated Archbishop of the Syrian Church of North America was not Professor Bashir. He was the priest of St. George's, a heavy-faced, black-bearded Archimandrite named Samuel David...
...drives a big Packard, and when the votes were counted in Manhattan after last autumn's stormy election, Samuel David was at hand. When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted. Archbishop Theodosios offered to compromise by elevating both Bashir and David, then withdrew that offer. Feeling he had been double-crossed, Samuel David marshaled Syrian followers about him. By last week he was ready to declare himself Syrian Archbishop of North America...