Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-21
DEAN BEECHER
MADE 4 BISHOP
Head Of Trinity Cathedral Appointed
to Bishoprio at Kearney,
Nebraska.
ONE OF SIX APPOINTEEs TO HONOR
Other Bishops Chosen for West and
Foreign Fields.
DEAN MUCH SURPRISED AT N z
Was Planning Great Extension
His Work Here in Omaha. :
ELECTION IS NOT YET ACCEP :
Rev. Bcecher win lie One Of
Youngest PreIates in the Church
Was Ordained Deacon ut
kearney.
Other Bishops Chosen for West and
Foreign Fields.

new bishops were appointed BY the Pro- /
tCstant Episcopal general convention here.
Rev. George Allen Beecher Of Omaha to
be uisnop OF kearney, Neb.
Rev. Theodore Payne Thurston. Mime
npOus to be bishop Of east Oklahoma
Rev. Francis l.. II. Potts, Shanghai, |
China, to be bishop OF Wuhu, China.
Rev. Louis sanford, Berkeley, Cal to be |
bishop Of San Joaquin. Cal.
Rev. Julius Walker. Atwood Phoenix, |
Ariz.. to be bishop Of Arizona.
Rev Edward y. Temple, Waco, Tex, to
be bishop OF northern Texas.
With the exception Of Bishop Beecher
the other new bishops are missionary
bishops.
by the election of these bishops the
membership OF the house OF bishops Of the
churcn is increased to ll9.
Bishop Thurston Is rector OF St PauIs
in Minneapolis.
lean Beecner was informed Of his cleo
ton Thursday morning by telegram
from Cincinnati. The dean Immediately
went into seclusion declining to see OF
talk with any one.
Has tie dean heard OF his eeCtion?"
WAS asked OF the home over the telephone.
Yes, that is why the dean will see no
one for a little whle'
News Of Dean Beecher's elevation Will be
heard with great interest in Omaha. where
tho clergyman has been active in juvenile
court work. aside from parochial duties in
connection with Trinity Cathedral parish
which is, OF course under his charge Dean
Beecher has always been a believer in an
Institutional church and has recently
inaugurated social activities for young
men and women which are to center in the
new Jacobs Memorial hall when that
buildlng ls completed.
Was Not ENRecpHR it.
sf'i had no sNpectatfcn OF ansthing of
this Kind said Dean Beecher after unch-
con; did not feel II possible that such
change would come in all the clrcum-
stances / have been Just on the thresh-
old OF great work In the social depart
ment OF the ohurch's advance in this work
which is going on not only here.' but gen
orally, as ! found indicated in the Inter
national Prison congress, as we'll in the
general convention Of the church now on
IN Cincinnati \ significant fact in this
connection is the appointment by both
houses OF the convention OF a standing
committee for the study OF extension Of
the churchs work along sociological lines.
Now that the call has come, II must be
that some good man will be called to take
up the work here and carry it on because
of its signal importance to the church"
With respect to personal regrets at leav-
ing Omaha friends. Dean Beecher did not
care TO speak, but he plainly feels this
deeply.
Nor did he care to discuss the matter OF
his conservation because he has not vet
accepted the election. That he will accept
Ia certain Tho pres ding bishop Of the
church will issue orders with respect TO
the conservation and designate the con-
fittg In Of IL "a Ia
TO be Bishop Williams and there is an
equal certitude that the other will be
B shop Graves. through whose resignation
the see of kearney became vacant
Bishop Graves II was who ordained Dear
Beecher first a deacon and then a priest
Of the church and it was at St Luke's
Kcuney, that these orders were conferred
uuon the bshop-elect.
horn Ia Illinois.
Dean Beecher was born In Monmout.
H. in lStS aud Will be one Of the youns
est bishops Of the church. lie came witt
his parents 10 Nebraska when he wac 1
aud went TO the state university from lSs
10 lSS9 The next three years he attende,
the Philadelphia Divinity school, an,
graduating in 1902, came to Kearney 10
ordination as deacon. Immediately Mr.
Boecher was sent to sidney, then a garrl
son, and for two years had charge OF
string of missions which necessitated driv
ing 400 miles every month In 1898 he vis
ted NeaTney 10 be ordained as priest /
1895 he was called TO the Church OF Ou
Saviour at North Platte and remained ther
seven years The next two he was recto
OF St Luke's at Kearney and In 1904 wa
called to the desnship Of Trinity cathedra
succeeding cry Rev, Campbell Fair VIII
had died.
Dean Beeehe knew that his name ha
49, ..F nF.rf. rt
felt no confidence that his election woul
result Il s Il fact that people at Kearne
and other parishes In the missionary dis
tr,ct urged his nomination and undoub
euy bishops Graves and Williams adv,
Gated his selection in the proceedings
The house. Dean Beecher received man
ronsIatulatory telesrams during the a
tcrnoou, one OF these being joint VII
from the two bishops named.
WccviVes congratulations,
Ills residence iu Garduvr Memorial paris
house was a busy place IN the afternoo
TIE telephone rang incessanuy with fricu
calling mp and many came 10 the hOE.
Three reporters arrived slmulatancOusl
I seem TO have grown almost famous
minute, said the dean TO these.
Dean Beecher viii De bishop Of q
missionary district OF Kearney." lie
20 he not "a diocesan bishop, but a missio
AIRY bishop and the election by the co
vonuuu settles the matter so far as chur,
procedure Is concerned A diocesan blsh,
Is first named by a diocesan council III
selection is then forwarded TO the DIT
siding bishop OF the church. who sends wo
t1 all the standing committees OF the Sc
c-al dioceses for their approval or d
approval The latter sometimes occurs
kearney. Hastings Grand Island a
North Platte are the principal centcrs
the missionary district Besides th,