Word: primus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop John Gardner Murray, Episcopal Primus Dr. Sacred Theology...
...Receive," said the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, "Primus" of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Bishop of the See of Bethlehem, Pa., "the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands...
...Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere. And now the prelates laid on him their hands, the "Primus" hung upon his neck the pectoral cross, placed upon his finger a ring, and he was consecrated Bishop of Long Island...
...born in Cuba in 1888 with the strategies of knights and pawns apparently engraved by dry point upon his infant brain. He lisped in gambits; at a period when most children are teething, he was teaching his father the Ruy Lopez, and while still a child he became primus of the Habana Chess Club. Only the insistence of a medical man induced him, at the age of eight, to take a holiday and go to school. He went through college, where he interested himself in science, history, art, music, sport. Then he began to play chess again, and the story...
...devotion to the Church National, Universal. So after 14 ballots, during which Bishop Brent of Western New York and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee unsuccessfully divided most of the votes between them, there came a sudden rush of enthusiasm for the onetime bookkeeper of Salem, Ala. He became unanimously "Primus"? an office in a small degree comparable to that of Archbishop of Canterbury. .Elected, he bowed his head in prayer for a long period. Interviewed, he said: "... a man feels, a sense of insufficiency. I haven't got over that feeling yet." Said Bishop Brent: "We have chosen...