Evening star., 1943-11-11
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Bishop Freeman
Election Will Take
Place at Convention
Here November q
By HAROLD B. ROGERS.

Four outstanding clergymen Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church
today were named by the Nomi-
mating Committee of the Wash
ington diocese as candidates to
succeed the late Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington. The new bishop
will be elected November % at a
special convention of the diocese.
The four nominees, in order Of
the committees choice, are:
Angus Dun, dean and professor
of systematic theology in the Epis-
copal Theological School, Cam
bridge, Mass.
Donald Bradshaw Aldrich, rector
of the Church of the Ascension in
New York City since 1925, now on
leave as a chaplain in the Navy
Dudley Scott Stark, rector of st.
Chrysostom's Church, Chicago.
Sidney Edward Sweet, dean Of
Christ Church Cathedral st. Louis.
Roberts Heads Committee.
The selections were MADE by the
committee headed by Owen J. Rob-
erts, associate justice of the Supreme
Court
The report, which contains brief
sketch of each of the four nominees
and an outline of the cardinal
qualifications" fixed by the commit
tee, was in the mail today en- route
to all Official members of the dio-
cesan convention which will elect a
new bishop
The report covers seven printed
pages.
In the same envelope also went
the official call for the convention to
elect a bishop.
The convention will be held in the
Church of st. Stephen and the In
carnation, Sixteenth and Newton
streets N.Ws where the special con-
vention on July 29 had postponed
election of bishop until after the
general convention of the church
held in Cleveland last month.
The services in St. Stephen will
open with celebration of the holy
communion at 8 a m, to be followed
by the business session at 10 am.
The call for this convention, which
is officially designated as a 'reas-
sembling" Of the recessed convention
of July, was sent out by the Rev. DR..
F. j. Bohanan, president Of the
convention.
When the convention proceeds to
elect bishop under the rules laid
down last July. it will have before it
the four names in the order of the
nominating committees choice, but
nominations also may be made from
the floor. The convention delegates
also will have in the report the
names of clergymen who had been
presented to the committee, num-
bering more than so.
Mass of Information Gathered.
Commenting on this list. the
Nominating Committee said: Study
and discussion confirmed the view
that small group of those sug-
gested might be chosen as pre-
eminently fitted for the important
and peculiar demands of our do
cese. With the aid of mass of in
formation gathered by the subcom-
mittees and by individual members
of the committee. all of which was
canvassed and freely discussed, the
committee agreed upon four names
to be submitted to the convention.
The resolution Of appointment
directs that the selection shall de-
pend upon the Judgment of the
majority of the committee So near
was the committee to unanimity of
view that, upon canvass of the
voting, it was found that no person
whose name was considered other
than the four hereafter to be men,
toned received the votes of a ma
jority of the committee; whereas,
each of the four whose names are
submitted to the convention re-
ceived, upon the first vote. more
than two-thirds of the votes of the
"a members present.
although the convention did not
direct the disclosure of the commit
tees Judgment as to the relative
standing of the nominees, We have
thought it would not be inappro-
pirate to state our preferences re-
specting the names submitted. Ac-
Icordingly, the nominees are named
in the order of the committees
choice"
The committee told the delegates
in their report today that it had
(See BISHOP, Page A-2.)