Evening star., 1943-11-24
DR.. Dun Confers
Here Friday on
Bishop Offer
Decision Muy
Require Several
Weeks, He Says

Weeks, He Says
DR.. Angus Dun OF Cambridge
Mass, bishop-elect of Washington
viii arrive here Friday for q week
end conference with leaders OF
Washington Diocese Protestant
Episcopal Church, it 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
q decision. It is uncertain whether
he can give an answer this week
end, according to indications to-
day, but it 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.. F. J. Bohanan, president
Of the special diocesan convention
which elected DR.. Dun on the thiro
ballot; Owen J. Roberts, associate
justice Of the Supreme Court, who
was chairman OF the nominating
committee which placed DR.. Dun ir
the No. ! position in its report ia.
voring four candidates. and the Rev
Or. Charles w. Sheerin, rector oi
Epiphany Church, of which the late
Right Rev. James E. Freeman
Bishop of Washington, formerly wa.
rector.
Took Prominent Part Here.
In coming to the College O.
Preachers for his conference with
the committee and diocesan leaders
DR.. Dun will be returning to ar
institution where he has taken 9
prominent part in previous con.
ferences.
If and when DR.. Dun accept.
the bishopric, convention official!
here will send to dioceses through.
out the country copies of the Off.
cial testimonial of election, signed
yesterday by the delegates at tn.
Church of st. Stephen and tn,
Incarnation. Approval of a ma
jority Of the standing committee.
of the dioceses Is necessary before
the bishop-elect could be conse'
Grated.
The place Of conservation i.
chosen by the bishop-elect ano
often is his own church, according
to tradition, but it Is not known here
whether DR.. Dun would choose 6
church or chapel in Cambridge, hi:
home city. A previous Bishop ol
Washington, the Right Rev. Henry
Yates Satterlee of New York, wal
consecrated at Calvary Church II
New YQrk CITY. .sand came to WasaSs
inetcn hesnext day to take over I'M
duties. s
- New Vote May Be Needed.
Bishop Alfred Harding of Wash.
ington was conSecrated in former
Trinity Church here. While not hi.
own church, he chose it because he
had been elected there. The late
Bishop Freeman, whom DR.. Dun ha,
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 tc
choose another man. in special con-
vention.
One of the new bishops important
acts will be to participate in naming
dean Of Washington Cathedral, q
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 dear
is to be given increased authority al
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 to 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
DR.. Bohanan explained
until new bishop takes ofiice.
DR.. Dun was the leading candi-
date throughout three ballots al
the convention yesterday, gaining
strength until he was elected about
l Pm. Ee received 48 of 90 clerical
votes and 81 of 85 lay votes. His
nearest competitors were DR.. G.
Avery Mason of New York national
headquarters of the church, who re-
ceived Is clerical and IA lay votes
and DR.. Dopald 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
DR.. Howard S. Wilkinson, rector OF
st. Thomas Church, 2 clerical and
no lay votes; the Rev. DR.. c. Leslie
Glenn, rector Of st. Johns Church
Lafayette Square, on leave as a ma
val chaplain, 2 clerical and no LAY
votes; the Rev. Edward Gabler, rec.
tor of Christ Church, Washington
parish, no clerical and l lay vote
the Rev. Clyde Brown, diocesan mis-.
sioner here, no clerical and / lay
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