Arizona republican., 1913-09-22
Protestant Episcopal Gen. eral Convention in New York Will Develop Im- pOrtant Matters -Propo- sitions to Change Name
MAY CHANGE
 REPRESENTATION
Catholics, Methodists and Congregationalists Also Arranging for Important Conferences in Various Parts of United States
Especial to The Republican,

Especial to The Republican, NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-SeveraI
 unusually important church confer i ences or conclaves will be held dur ing the coming month and in view of the vital questions to be discussed and decided at some of these gather ings their outcome is awaited with a
 great deal of interest in church cir cles throughout the country.
 Bishops and clerical and lay depu- ties of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States will gather in New York on October to the number of about eight hun dred to attend the forty-t third trien- niaI general convention. It is twenty five years since a general convention has been held in New York City and the leading clergymen and laymen of
 the diocese have made every effort
 to make the occasion notable in the annals of the church.
 The completion of the new Synod hall, at Amsterdam avenue and One Hundred and Tenth street, will af- ford magnificent meeting place for the house of deputies. The house of
 bishops sits separately from the
 house of deputies and will hold it's sessions in old Synod hall. The dele gates will come from every part of
 the United States and will repre- sent the cOmmunicants of the Prot estant Episcopal church in this coun- try of whom there are about 1,000,-
 GOO The convention will include 100
 bishops and 500 deputies 300 of
 whom are clergymen and 300 lay men
 One of the proposed changes in
 
 the convention and which, it is eX- pected. will be debated with great
 forcefuIness by the advocates of both sides, will affect the representation , in the convention. so that such rep resentation in the convention shall be based on the number of communi- cants in any diocese instead of be- ing the same for all, regardless of the number of communicants.
 Another matter which is expected to give rise to considerable discus sion is the question of changing the name of the church. This matter has been agitated for long time' but the views concerning the name to be substituted for the present designation of the church are widely divergent. A majority of those who are dissatisfied with the present name seem to favor the name Of
 American Catholic church. Another subject of considerable importance to be considered is the attitude of the church to marriage and divorce. The second American Catholic Missionary congress, under the aus pices of the Catholic Church EXten- sion society. which will open it's ses- sion in Boston on October 19' Is looked upon as one of the most lm- portant Catholic church gatherings held in this country for many years Eighty bishops from different parts of the United States. Canada, Mex ico and other countries, hundreds or minor members of the Catholic clergy and thousands of laymen will attend the gathering.
 The Catholic missionary work or the world will be discussed at the coming congress and plans will be formulated for carrying on this work with even greater zeal than hereto fore. The necessity for this is real ized and appreciated by the entire Catholic clergy The Holy See has appointed the Most Rev. John Bon zano. D. b. Archbishop of Mitilehe TC,o,7+3,IIod on Page Three)