Word: suffragan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Millard, Suffragan Bishop of California, presided at the ceremony and made no apologies for it. In wealthy San Mateo County across the Bay, he argued, "people would bring their azure minks and the brass section from the San Francisco Symphony" to an ordination. "Why shouldn't the hippies be allowed to wear the clothes they like and bring their music...
...action. The accused was not allowed the privilege of sitting on the committee." Pike's successor in California, the Rt. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, declared that the tone of the report "suggests that we are already at trial." Perhaps the most eloquent defense came from Washington's Suffragan Bishop Paul Moore Jr. "Why is it that the house has not censured any of the rest of us who have spoken, acted out or allowed to occur within our diocese greater blasphemies than the treatment of items of doctrine less than solemnly? I speak of church doors closed against...
...Hello, Kim? This is Jim," said California's retiring Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike into a phone at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. "Has anyone told you the news?" No one had. But there was no better way for Michigan's Suffragan Bishop C. (for Chauncie) Kilmer Myers, awakened at 3:30 a.m. at his home in Detroit, to learn that he had just been elected Pike's successor...
...takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city's Episcopal Diocese as a protest against Suffragan Bishop Paul Moore Jr.'s advocacy of .open housing and fair employment practices...
...Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that the co operation has been so easily accepted, suggests Chicago's Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, is found in the widespread agreement with St. Augustine...