Evening star., 1925-10-12
BISHOP UNFR0CKED
BY EP|SCOPAL|ANS
/. ON HERESY CHARGE
Right Rev. William M. Brown
Oep0Sed-FaiIS to Answer
When Called.
OUSTED PRELATE STARTS
ACTION IN u. S. COURT
Presiding Officer and House of
Bishops Cited to Show Cause
for Move.
By the Associated Press.

was .'depoSed from the sacred min
istry," at the triennial convention of
the Episcopal Church here today.
Bishop Brown did not answer when
his name was called in his absence and
sentence was pronounced by the Rt
Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, presiding
bishop.
Although many bishops We're in the
congregation when the presiding
bishop and his staff mounted the pulpit
there were many empty seats in the
church auditorium. Bishop Talbot was
accompanied by the Rev. a. l.. Berke-
ley, rector of st. Paul's Church, acting
as chaplain; the Rt. Rev. +. r. Reese,
Bishop of Georgia, and the Rt. Rev
Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennes-
see, as official witness, and Rev. G. l..
Pardee, secretary of the House of
Bishops. as registrar.
Fails to Answer.
After an opening prayer by the pre-
siding bishop the chaplain was directed
to call Rt. Rev. William Montgomery
Brown.
Bishop William Montgomery
Brown" was sounded three times with.
out a response.
Bishop Talbot then announced that
Bishop Brown had been convicted of
holding and teaching publicly and ad-
Vlsedly certain doctrines contrary to
those held by the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Bishop Talbot recalled that
Bishop Brown had been tried by a
trial court and court Of review and
his sentence of deposition unheld by
a two-thirds vote of the House of
Bishops.
Il depose William MONTGOMERY
Brown from the sacred ministry, and
do declare that he is so deposed,"
were the concluding words Of the
ceremony.
Notice has been served on the pre-
siding bishop, and through him from
the House of Bishops, TO appear in
United States court Wednesday morn
ing to show cause for the proceedings
against Bishop Brown. Counsel will
appear for the presiding bishop and
the House Of Bishops, it was said to-
day.
1t was announced that the presiding
blshop will enter a record Of the pro-
ceedlngs in his register and file a GER
tlhcate that he has pronounced the
sentence with the clerk Of the court
Tor the review of a trial Of bishop.
Text of Sentence.
Bishop Talbot in pronouncing the
sentence said:
Whereas, in the court for the trial
OF bishop such proceedings were duly
had in the matter of the presentment
for the trial of you, the said Right
Rev. William Montgomery Brown. for
holding and teaching publicly and ad
visedly certain doctrine contrary to
that held by the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States of Amer
rti o,-Iy-
presentment, that the said court BY
their judgment dated May 81, 1924.
duly found you guilty of holding and
teaching publicly and advisedly doc
trine contrary to that held by the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States Of America in manner
and form as set forth in the present
ment, as to each of the charges and
spec ifications of the preSentment, and
Whereas. thereafter you. the said
Right Rev. William Montgomery
Brown, appealed from the said 1udg-
ment of the court for the review of
the trial Of bishop, and in the said
court such proceedings were duly had
that by their Judgment dated January
Is. 1925, it was duly adiudged that the
judgment of the trial court be affirmed;
and the said court of review in ac-
cordance with the provision Of canon
33, section 4, further found you. the
said Right Rev. William Montgomery
Brown, guilty as charged in the
presentment, and demand the sentence
to be passed upon you to be deposition
from the sacred ministry
And, whereas. the said findings
have been duly approved by a vote of
two-thirds of all the bishops entitled
to seats in the house of bishops,
canonically assembled in the said
house.
And, whereas. I, the Right Rev.
Ethelbert Talbot, D. D.. presiding
Bishop of the Protestant EpiscopaI
Church in the United States Of Amer
lea, have appointed this time and this
place for pronouncing the sentence de-
termined as aforesaid by the court of
review, and have notified you thereof.
Now, therefore, 1 call upon you to
show cause, if you so desire, why SEN
tence should not be pronounced.
In pursuance of the determination
of the court of review, and in virtue
CT all authority committed to me, 1
depose you. William Montgomery
Brown from the sacred ministry, and
do hereby declare that you are so
deposed, Amen"