Word: bishops
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Western diplomats in Africa speculated that the raid was aimed at driving a wedge between Mugabe, who has insisted that the war will continue until Muzorewa steps down, and his uneasy partner Nkomo, who seems more willing to compromise with the bishop's regime. While attempting to split his external enemies, the Prime Minister has dealt sternly with his political opponents inside the country. In July, Zimbabwe Rhodesian soldiers shot down at least 183 members of the "private army" of Muzorewa's rival, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who finished second to Muzorewa in last April's "majority...
...rhetorical repudiation of his country's colonial past, Muzorewa last week ordered that the word Rhodesia be dropped from its name. If the bishop's parliament approves the change, the country will henceforth be known as Zimbabwe, after a black civilization that existed in the area before the coming of the white...
...archbishop is a stalwart, outgoing man ("not an introverted ecclesiastic," according to friends). He had great popularity as Bishop of St. Albans near London, and is known for his teaching, administrative and diplomatic skills. He is also a High Churchman who has taken a definite stand on the most emotional issue in worldwide Anglicanism: he opposes the ordination of women as priests, at least in England. Trevor Beeson, European correspondent of America's liberal Christian Century, wrote of Runcie's view, "It is difficult to see how leadership of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion...
...Crown Appointments Commission thought differently. This 14-member church group was formed in 1977 to propose to the Prime Minister two names, in order of preference, to fill each bishop vacancy. Runcie is the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be selected this way, rather than through a series of political consultations. The new procedure is a step toward fuller independence of the established English church from the machinery of state, something Runcie favors...
Before becoming a bishop, Runcie spent a decade heading a theological seminary. He also has led the Anglican negotiations with the Eastern Orthodox churches on reconciling doctrinal differences. Runcie favors ecclesiastical remarriage for divorced persons, which the Church of England rejected last year. People who want to marry again, he believes, may even be more serious the second time around...