Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
PRELATES TO NAME |
PRESIDING BISHOP
Protestant Episcopal Church
Leaders Meet Here WedneS-
day to Fill Vacancy.

Bishops Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in America will assemble in
solemn conclave Wednesday morning to
elect a successor to Most Rev. John
Gardner Murray, the former presiding
bishop, who died suddenly at the spe-
cial meeting of the House OF Bishops
in Atlantic City october 3. The con-
clave will be held in Bethlehem Chapel
of Washington Cathedral.
mount importance to the Protestant
Episcopal Church, as the presiding
bishop Is regarded both at home and
abroad as its spokesman.
Until Bishop Murray was elected ut
the triennial at New orleans the office
of presiding bishop went to the active
bishop Of diocese who had been long
est consecrated. For generation this
was the late Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester
futile OF ST. Louis. 1t was decided az
his death to make the ONCE elective.
Bishop Murray had served four Of the
six years for which he was chosen. His
successor will be elected to fill out the
term and will be eligible for election for
six years at the next general convention
at Denver, in 1891.
6S Bishops Constitute Quorum.
The position Is comparable in many
ways to that of the Archbishop of Cam
IA SAAQACA VI
church leaders point out. The canon
law provides that at the death of the
presiding bishop the senior bishop with
in two months shall call special meet
| ing of the House of Bishops to elect q
| successor. The cali for the meeting
| Wednesday was issued by Right Rev,
William A. Leonard Of Cleveland, Bishop
of Ohio.
Episcopal Church regulations govern.
| ing. such actions provide that at least
Oh bishops must be present to constitute
| quorum. That this will be more than
complied with is indicated by the fact
that IS bishops have already announced
their intention of attending,
The meeting will be opened at ESQ
am. with the celebration of holy COM,
| munion The celebrant will be Right
Rev. Charles p. Anderson, Bishop Of
Chicago. assisted by the Right Rev.
James z, Freeman, Bishop Of Washing
ton Following this service the House
OF Bishops will 60 into executive session
The deliberations will be secret and
! only the name of the bishop elected
Will be announced. None of the can
| didates whose vote is close to that of
the prelate chosen win be made known,
| nor Will the public be admitted to
either the celebration of the holy
eucharist or the subsequent conclave.
| The house also will elect q missionary
| Bishop OF Honolulu Very Rev. Harry
Beal, dean of st. Paul's Cathedral, Los
Angeles, elected to that post at the At
| lantic City meeting, has declined the
| episcopate.
Speculation as to Choice.
! There is naturally considerable specu-
| lation over who will be chosen preSid-
ing bishop. The canon law provides
that the choice must be made from a
h{ch0FN he yiF1 fYsrfelirtfaV, fV,
States. Tradition is said to dictate also
that the presiding bishop be the head
Of geographically small diocese and
have a S., cceSSful record as admins
traitor, In addition, 1t is reported that
there Is a strong feeling against the
selection OF any one more than IS years
old as the responsibilities are regarded
as too arduouS for . prelate more ad-
vanced in years.
Wei informed churchnen hesitate to
| offer any predictions concerning the
outcome Of thaNRleetion
Many Washtugt0 niAns believe that
| Bishop Freeman would be an ideal Sc
| lection. They point to the progress be-
| ing attained under his direction in the
building Of Washington Cathedral and
its associated institutions and declare
that few prelates are more favorably
Il
| Likewise there are Chicago church.
men who voice" the merits Of Bishop
Anderson, while in New York is found
sentiment favorable to Right Rev. VIII
liam T. Manning, Bishop of New York,
and Right Rev. Ernest M. Stires, Bishop
of Long Island. In other quarters word
is heard of Right Rev, Thomas Camp
bell Darst. Bishop of East Carolina;
Right Rev. James DeWolf Perry, Bish-
op Of Rhode Island Right Rev, John
G. Ward. Bishop of Erie, Pa; Right
Rev. Philip Cook, Bishop of Delaware:
Right Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery,
| Bishop OF Massachusetts,; Right Rev,
Charles Fiske, Bishop of Central New
York; Right Rev. Henry st. George
Tucker. Bishop of Virginia; Right Rev.
Irving Peake johnson, Bishop of Colo.
RADIO, and Right Rev. II. L. Burson,
Missionary Bishop of South Dakota,
who was assessor to the presiding
bishop
1t Is expected that the new presid-
ing bishop will make his initial public.
appearance at the dedication of the
College of Preachers of Washington
| Cathedral Thursday.
| The new presiding bishop will be the
seventeenth prelate who has been ele-
waited to that dignity. The first bishop
so honored was Right Rev. william
! white. Bishop of PENNSYLVANIA. who
served two terms, from July 2S,>1Te9, To
| October 5, 1888, and from September