Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-05

PLAN SERVICE
FOR new BISHOP


state will gather at St. stephens
Episcopal church here this morning
for brief service marking. the con-
secration of DIR. Walter Mitchell who
will assume the regal robes as bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of Arizona
at Trenton, New Jersey at $3.50 a. m.
mountain time, today.
DR. Mitchell had hoped to be con-
secrated in the west but this proved
impossible so he has personally re-
uuested that Episcopal clergy of this
state join with their congregations
this morning at special service to
mark his elevation.
The service in this city will be at
1880 this morning and communion
will BET offered with Rev. e. w. Sim
onson officiating. Most of the serv-
ices throughout Arizona marking the
Important event, win be held at $50
a. m.-the identical hour DR.. Mitch
ell is being consecrated in the east
with the Trinity Cathedral of Phoe-
nix, as the seat of the diocese lead
ing.
The new bishop succeeds the Rev.
j. w. Atwood who held the post
for more than Is years and who
will go into voluntary retirement.
Bishop Atwood and Dean Herbert L.
Johnson of Trinity Cathedral will
attend the services in Trenton at
which the new bishop is to be ele-
waited.
Trenton, N j.. January f. 1926:
Rev. Walter MITCHELL D. D., of New
Jersey, Tuesday will be consecrated
Missionary Bishop of Arizona, sue
ceeding the Rt. Rev. Julius Walter
Atwood, d. d., resigned, in Christ
Church Pro-Cathedral, this city, by
Rt Rev John Gardner Murray, D.
D., Bishop of Maryland, and presid-
ing bishop of the Episcopal church in
the United States, in the presence of
large and distinguished congrega-
tion, including the clergy and laity
of the church from all sections of
the country; and especially from the
south where the new Bishop had
rendered long service as missionary
and parish priest prior to his call
to the diocese of New Jersey where
he has occupied the important post
of secretary for the field department
in this diocese.
The occasion will be especially
notable in the fact that it marks
the first official act of the church
head to which place he was named at
the recent Episcopal general con
vention in New Orleans. The re-
firing Bishop of Arizona DR.. At
wood, will also participate in the
ceremony as one of the co-conse-
orators, serving in this capacity with
the Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews, d. d.
Bishop of New Jersey, and Presiding
Bishop Murray. The Rev. Robert
Bland Mitchell, executive secretary of
the field department sof the national
council Of the church, and brother
of the new Bishop of Arizona will
serve with the Rev. w. H. DuBose
d. d. of Sewanee, Tenn, as attend
ing presbyterians to Bishop Mitchell.
The spresenters at the ceremony
will be the Rt. Rev. Albion w.
knight, D. D., Bishop Coadjutcr of
New Jersey, and the Rt. Rev. Kirk
man George FinlayY D. D., Bishop
of Upper South Carolina. The
preacher for the occasion will be
the Rt. Rev. William Alexander
Guerry d. D., Bishop of South Caro-
lima
The Very Rev. Herbert L. Johnson,
Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix,
Arizona, is to read the certificate
of ordination. Rt. Rev. Arthur Sell
don Lloyd, D. D., Suffragan Bishop
of New York will present the certi-
ficate of election, Rt. Rev. William
Cabell Brown, D. D., Bishop of Vir
ginia will read the canonical testi-
monial, the Ven. r. Bowden Shep-
herd, Archdeacon of the Diocese of
New Jersey will present the con-
firmation of Bishop Mitchell's cleo
tion by the House of Deputies and
the Mandate for Conservation will
be read by the Rt. Rev. Philip Cook,
Bishop of Delaware.S Rev. Charles
s. Lewis, d. D., is to serve as the
Master of Ceremonies, assisted by
Rev William Herbert Moor, and the
Rev Charles Pardee, D. D., secretary
of the house..of bishops, will be the
Registrar.
Following the conservation. to be
marked by all the beauty and solem-
nitys of the service for the elevation
of priest to the episeopate, lunch-
con will be served at the Hotel
Stacy-Trent, at which Bishop Knight, /
chairman of the committee on ar
rangements. is to preside Three hum
dredl friends of the new bishop will
attend a reception to precede the
luncheon. The earnest and efficient
work at the head of the Field De-
partment of the Diocese during the
past few years won the new bishop
commentator of church leaders thru
out the land and was in part
responsible for his election to the
episcopate Among the speakers at
the luncheon will be the presiding
bishop, the Bishop of New Jersey
and Bishop Mitchell.
The Bishops ring, will be pre-
sented to Bishop Mitchell by his
Diocesan, the Bishop of New Jersey;
his pectoral cross to be the gift of
the clergy of New Jersey as loving
testimonial to their associate, and
full set of yestments will be given
to the new bishop by the Woman's
auxiliary of South Carolina in MEM
ory of his labors in that field in the
past.
The new bishop will leave almost
Immediately for Arizona to assume
his 4dufieS thare