Evening star., 1938-10-29
HOUSE OF BISHOPS
5SEES NEW FACES
May Take on More Liberal,
Less Formal Nature in
Memphis.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 29.-When
the House of Bishops of the Episcopal
Church opens its annual meeting here
next Wednesday there will be enough
new members to change materially
the makeup of the house, and as
most Of these members consecrated to
the episcopate since the last meeting
are younger men. Church leaders here
believe that the house may take on a
more liberal and less formal character.
While the house met only year. ago,
deaths, designations and consecrations
have brought many changes. The
presiding bishop. the Right Rev. Henry
st. George Tucker. will WELD the gavel
for the first time, having assumed
his present office January l, after the
1887 meeting which was held as part of
the church's Triennial General Con-
vention, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The house will have before it for
consideration the resignation of 10
bishops, ali on account of age or physi-
cal disability. The bishops resisnine
are: The Right Rev. William L. Gra-
watt. Bishop of West Virginia. who, If
his resignation is accepted, will be sue
ceeded by his coadjutor, the Right Rev.
Robert E. L. Strider; the Right Rev.
Ernest v. Shayler. Bishop of Nebraska;
the Right Rev. George M Davenport,
Bishop Of Easton: the Right Rev. Da-
vid L. Ferris, Bishop Of Rochester,
whose coadjutor, the Right Rev. Bartel
H. Reinheimer, will succeed him; the
Right Rev. Irving Peake johnson,
Bishop of Colorado, veteran wit and
raconteur of the house, who will be
succeeded by his coadjutor, the Right
Rev. Fred Ingley; the Right Rev. Rob-
ert H. Mize, Missionary Bishop of Sa-
lima: the Right Rev. Theodore Du Bose
Bratton. Bishop of Mississippi. whose
coadjutor is the Right Rev. William
M. Green; the Right Rev. Warren L.
Rogers, Bishop of Ohio, whose coadju-
tor. the Right Rev. Beverly D. Tucker,
takes his seat in the house for the first
time at this meeting. he having been
consecrated to the episcopate on Sep
tember %; the Right Rev. John w.
Nichols, Suffragan Bishop OF Shang-
hal China, and the Right Rev. James
Craik Morris, Bishop of Louisiana.
Eleven new members Of the house
will be formally introduced at the
meeting. They are the Right Rev.
William Payne Roberts, Missionary
Bishop Of Shanghai: the Right Rev.
Robert Franklin Wilmer, Sunragan
Bishop Of the Philippine Islands; the
Right Rev. Raymond A. Heron, Suffra-
gan Bishop of Massachusetts,: the
Right Rev. William A. Brown, Bishop
of Southern Virginia; the Right Rev.
Charles c. j. Carpenter, Bishop OF
Alabama; the Right Rev. Edmund P.
cambridge, coadjutor of Tennessee: the
Right Rev. Henry Disbrow Phillips,
Bishop Of Southwestern Virginia: the
Right Rev Karl Morgan Block, Bishop
Coadjutor of California: the Right Rev.
Malcolm E. Peabody, Bishop Coadtu-
tor OF Central New York; the Right
Rev. Beverly D. Tucker, Bishop Coad-
jutor-and if Bishop Rogers resigna-
ton Is accepted-immediatel Bishop
Of the Diocese of Ohio; and the Right
Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, Bishop Of
Arkansas. who will be the baby"
member of the house, he having been
eonsecrated October S.
Two other vacancies exist in the
house. These are the bishopric of
Delaware. vacant through the death
Of the Right Rev. Philip Cook, former
president Of the National Council of
the church, and that Of Upper South
Carolina, created by the death late this
summer Of the Right Rev. Kirkman G.
F1nlay. The diocese Of Delaware
elected the Rev. Oliver j. Hart of
Washington, D. c., to succeed Bishop
Cook, but he declined the election.