The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-11
FIRST SUFFRAGAH BISHOP
nm RiI DR. Bt RCH ELECTED
IDR ms DIOCESE.
~ :, Nrrhdearsn NJ Rirhmsnd and VIII
>..,.l Rishop Greer vain No Right sl
>,.,rr>,,on wih Prebabi, DO lp
state work- STANDING Committee

>lHir Nofh S'snanhS a@mmitee.
r.. Row pr Charles Summer Bnrch
r. II Nd ~ Andrews parish Staten
r.rH md Archd-acon Of Richmond
-s,a -rtsd unanimously yesterday Bishop
.Hr,san Vt the Episcopal diocese Of
", Work. and in a short address upon
p..rs resented to the convention he
.,4 ~ ~oud accept The election WAS
MAD. av the annual convention Of this
t.,.4-a sitting IN synod hall OF the cathe-
d-a grounds. He was nominated by
to Rev pr ". T Manning. rector OF
Irr'y PARISH The nomination was
.sc,niai bv the Rev. DR.. W. N. Gros-
v.nor president OF the standing COM
r.,.as and by the Rev. DR.. @. +. Nelson.
.rrnI-aCun OF New York.
Inc Rev. r. + German Of Mamaroneck
nominated the Rev. Or. W. II. Pott OF
VA gers Falls, but Dr. Pott at once
u,htrsw his name. Only one nominee
va, voted for After the election the
r.. pr Manning and J. Pierpont Nor
.au aero named com Dttee to notify
ne -INra san-elect and bring him to
ne Platform. DR.. Burch was greeted
warmly hy Bishop Greer. whose assistant
h. becomes prov ldei the present Bishops
q
Fyscryal Church approve a matter
winch formal
bishop .urra gan Is something new
90 America DIR Burch il the first one
e. 30 elected In a spiritual sense he
wi, ne Bishop Ink all others Accord
~ 20 present law. adopted last month
- WI have no vote in the House OF
R.r1.- hut there - a move to correct
m.s'- next The difference is solely
10 jurisdiction. There have long been
P-hops coailutor. who upon the death
If he Bishop become Bishop without
TURNER action, Just a. Bishop Greer be-
CAM tho head Of the diocese of New York
upcu no death OF Bishop Potter Bishop
BIrch v,l he an assistant and an assistant
ouly Cpon -h. death Of Bishop tine
status Of a suTrsgan Bishop remains
unchanged
in England At the death Of the Bishop
RE .TfraSan Is out Of job. In Amer
lea thai plan was nos followed II is
h-l.v.d tnat susragLns who are SUCCESS
ri w.! =" elected Bishops OF other do
80. o. Il not OF their own. The new law
was paes"d largely to meet what was
-houSh' To Ia IN. needs Of New yor.
and Philadelphia. TO some extent Boston
ana chicago. where the Episcopal Church
has gown IN numbers and work but
where II seems al present undes IA HE
N iuvida and create a now jurisdiction
In New York. howeyer II 10 believed
that division will come IN another three
years
The new Bishop sufragan Is a native
e Michigan. where he was born in Ann
,rbor tfiy-hve wears ago. ne was
sradusi ed from The University Of Michi gan
IN 1875 but later took a post graduate
curse IN economics and history. In the
early 500 he tent into Chicago Journalism
After little more than en- years he studied
theology a the Western Seminary in
chicaxo and was ordained by Bishop
McLaren Of that city in 1895 He studied
abroad chiefly At Oxford University
He received the doctor Of divinity degree
from Hobart College in 1893. He came
last fourteen years ago. but returned
Wsst again
In isos he became rector Of old 81
andrews. Staten Island. a quaint old
church and parish formerly owning much
NJ the island and still possessing an
endowment for its rector Three years
ago he was elected archdeaccn. Who i
IN. church ext ension head. and in that
rlace gained the experience which At 81
him for the higher place. His salary az
Bishop suFragan was fixed AT s. son year
ami n IL said he NAV reside in New bu Oh
or some rural part ofthe diocese Speaking
af.ar his election he said:
Nv wors will he tina, which Bishop
i-rsa~ gives me 10 do. ] cannot saw
more now than 20 poin, % the fact that I
annie third rect CT OF mist ORC II Andrews
staten Island to be elect ed Bishop The
srs, vas Bishop S~abury OF CoUnac. icur.
no irst in he Episcopal Church in Amer
"a and the second Bishop Moore Of
Virginia who became one Of the great
Aad-r- ~ the Episcopal Church in the
>ourh
Much Of Yesterday in the convention
-as spent in amending canons. One
lmporran, matter, furthered by j Pier
porr Morgan vas n secure rotation in
"fTce the aim being to preyen, few veil
snown ministers and laym~u from hold
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