New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
Trinity Parish,
Presents kevs
To DR.. Stetso1,
Hundreds Outside Church.
ward See Door Unlocked
by New Rector Cere-
mony Lasts Is Minutes
Reception in Vestry Room
Bishop Manning's Success
sor Is Twelfth Leader
Since Founding i'll 1907

The Rev. Caleb Rockford Stetson,
until recently rector of st. Mark s
church, Washington, yesterday re-
seived the keys to Trinity Church
and thus became its twelfth rector. The
ceremony took place at the church.
trinity parish's method Of inducting q
rev rector is distinct from that of any
ather Protestant Episcopal Church in
America. The practice of turning over
he keys to the new incumbent has been
followed since the founding of the his
toric old church in 1897 by charter of
the King Of England.
The ceremony required only fifteen
minutes The sections. vestrymen, clergy,
senior warden and rector first as
sembled in the vestry room at the rear
Il the church. They passed in process
son down the south aisle of the edi-
ice and out into the churchyar<., Y here
sundreds OF people peered through the
.aIl iron fence from the sidewalks.
The prccession then re-entered the
church at the main door facing on
Broadway and Wall Street, pausing for
few minutes at the door for Or. Sfet-
oa TO receive the keys and unlock the
hurch.
Key Presented to Rector
Tho senior warden, Richard Della
I'D. president of the National PARK
Bank, placed DR.. Stetson's right hand
n the church key. The sections Of the
,srous chapels then placed the chapel
ysys in the hand of the senior warden,
rho, in turn. delivered them to DR..
tetson. saying;
Il hereby deliver to you the keys Of
yais church and of st. Paul's Chapel,
s. Lukes Chapel, the Chapel of the
Intercession. st. Chrysostom's Chapel,
Il Augustine's Chapel and the Chapel
81 st. Cornelius the Centurion, and by
girtue thereof I induct you into the
esfce Of rector of Trinity Church in
no CITY Of New York. and into the
eal. actual and corporal possession OF
Inc rectorship with all its fruits.
ssoiits, members and appurtcnances.'
The rector answered:
L accept the keys and with them the
enporallties, profits and appurte-
,anccs Of the rectory, and by the grace
81 God will faithfully perform the
suites Of my office, so long as 1t may
lease God to continue me in It"
Ncstry Room Reception
The procession then filed down the
ecntral aisle to the vestry room, where
iir. Stetson pronounced the benediction
and received all comers informally.
BISHOP William T. Manning, OF the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New
York, was among those present to CON
eratulate the new rector. Others pres
snt and participating we're the Revs.
Is iliam Montague Gccr. William W.
Beliinger. Milo H. Gates, Edward X.
Scniueter. Edmund Banks Smith, C..
Nelson Moller, ]. Wilson Sutton. Jo-
ssph F. McComas and Stuyvesant Fish.
lunior warden. and the following mem
oers of the vestry: Nicholas f. Palmer,
s Edward Nash, Henry c. Swords, Will
ian Barclay Parsons, George F. Crane,
ambrose s. Murray jr.. Justice Vernon
NJ Davis. E,gerton l. Winthrop jr., Pell
II. Foster, John B. Lawrence, John
afskine. Arthur W. Watson, Lawson
purdy, Samuel A. Tucker Frederick H.
Moore and John c. Livingston.
DR.. Stetson was chosen to succeed
iishop Manning as rector Of Trinity
at an election following the latter's
DEVIATION to the headship of the Prot
estant Episcopal Diocese of New York.
DR.. Stetson WAS born In Boston in
s7l. was graduated from Harvard in
s94 studied medicine at Johns Hop
ans University and was graduated from
the General Theological Seminary in
1888 He was ordained for the minis
Try the same year in the Washington
snurch by the late Right Rev. Henry
Satterlee, then Bishop OF Washington.