Evening star., 1943-11-24
Dr.. Dun Confers
He!reFriday on
Offer
Decision May
Require Several
Weeks, He Says

weeks ne SoyS
DR.. Angus Dun of Cambridge,
Mass, bishop-elect of Washington,
viii arrive here Friday for a week
end conference with leaders Of
Washington Diocese Protestant
Episcopal Church, 1t was learned
today.
He will stay at the College of
Preachers on Cathedral Close,
where the committee authorized to
notify him Of his election will meet
him Friday morning.
DR.. Dun indicated at Cambridge
that he wants some time to think
over the matter Of acceptance, and
may require several weeks to reach
. decision. It is uncertain whether
he can give an answer this week
end, according to indications to-
day, but 1t is considered helpful for
all concerned that he has accepted
the invitation to come here. He
also can confer with other leaders
of the diocese, in addition to the
three members of the Notification
Committee.
This committee, which advised
him Informally of his election by
telephone yesterday, consists of the
Rev. DR.. r. J. Bohanan, president
of the special diocesan convention
which elected DR.. Dun on the third
ballot; Owen J. Roberts, associate
justice of the Supreme Court, who
was chairman Of the nominating
committee which placed DR.. Dun In
the No. position in its report IA
voring four candidates, and the Rev
DR.. Charles w. Sheerin, rector Of
Epiphany Church, of which the late
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, formerly was
rector.
Took Prominent Part Here.
In coming to the College of
Preachers for his conference with
the committee and diocesan leaders,
DR.. Dun will be returning to an
institution where he has taken a
prominent part in previous con-
ferences.
If and when DR.. Dun accepts
the bishopric. convention officials
here will send to dioceses through
out the country copies of the off,
cial testimonial of election, signed
yesterday by the delegates at the
Church of ST. Stephen and the
Incarnation. Approval of ma
jority of the standing committees
of the dioceses is necessary before
the bishop-elect could be conse-
Grated.
The place of conservation is
chosen by the bishop-elect and
often Is his own church, according
to tradition, but it is not known here
whether DR.. Dun would choose a
church or chapel in Cambridge, his
home city. A previous Bishop Of
Washington, the Right Rev. Henry
YAtAA Satterlee of New York, was
eehsAesA4ed at Calvary Church In
Me- YSfk City, and came to wash
ington the next day to take over his
duties.
New Vote May Be Needed.
Bishop Alfred Harding of Wash
ington was consecrated in former
Trinity Church here. While not his
own church. he chose it because he
had been elected there. The late
Bishop Freeman, whom DR.. Dun has
been chosen to succeed was conse-
Grated in Epiphany, his own church
here.
If DR.. Dun should refuse the
post, the diocese here would have to
choose another man. in special con-
vention.
One of the new bishops important
acts will be to participate in naming
a dean of Washington Cathedral,
post made vacant by the death of
the late Very Rev. Ze Barney T.
Phillips, former president of the
House of Deputies of the General
Convention and chaplain of the
Senate. Under present regulations,
the new bishop would nominate the
dean, who would be elected by the
Cathedral Chapter. The new dean
is to be given increased authority at
the Cathedral, according to officials
of the Cathedral Chapter, in order
to relieve the bishop of many re-
sponsibilities in directing the Cathe-
dral. The new bishop would be the
executive officer" of the Cathedral,
it was explained. There was no in
dication today as 10 possible candi-
dates for dean.
Retired Bishop Serving.
Meanwhile, the ecclesiastical au-
thority of the diocese remains the
Standing Committee, of which DR..
Bohanan is chairman. To perform
necessary rites here which only a
bishop of the church can perform,
such as combinations, the Right
Rev. George w. Davenport, retired,
former Bishop of Easton, Pa, is re-
siding at the Episcopal Church
House. He will remain here in that
capacity. DR.. Bohanan explained,
until new bishop takes office.
DR.. Dun was the leading candi-
date throughout three ballots at
the convention yesterday, gaining
strength until he was elected about
l pm. He received 48 of 90 clerical
votes and 81 Of IS lay votes. His
nearest competitors were DR.. c..
Avery Mason of New York national
Of the church, who re-
ceived IS clerical and IA lay votes,
and DR.. Donald Bradshaw Aldrich,
rector of the Church of the Ascen-
sion, New York, who received Is
clerical and II lay votes. Other
scattered votes on the final ballot
were distributed as follows. The Rev