Evening star., 1944-04-16
Rites Leading
To Conservation
|0f Dr.. Dun Open
Archbishop Of York
To Speak Twice at
Cathedral Today
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.

Washington Cathedral today will
begin a series of services which will
culminate Wednesday morning with
conservation Of the Very Rev. Angus
Dun Of Cambridge (Mass.) as Fourth
Bishop OF Washington.
Two sermons will be delivered at
the Cathedral today by one of the
most celebarted churchmen to par
ticipate In the conservation cere-
moines, the Most Rev. and Right
Hon. Cyril Forster Garbett, Arch
bishop of York.
The archbishop will preach first
at 10 am. on the Columbia Broad
casting Systems Church of the
Air" to be heard locally over station
WTOP. Taking for his subject "The
Cup OF Liberty" the archbishop will
speak from Bethlehem Chapel. but
due to the limited seating facilities
no congregation will be admitted for
the radio address.
Sermon at PM.
A crowd is expected at the Cathe-
dral, however, for the Archbishop's
sermon at the pm. evensong serv-
ice when there will be special music
by the Cathedral Choral Society.
| There will be holy communion at
1880 and $50 am, at the Cathedral,
and sermon at the II am. service
by Canon Chancellor Charles w. r.
Smith.
Bishop-elect Dun and Mrs. Dun
are living quietly at the College of
Preachers on the Cathedral Close.
Prominent churchmen are ex.
pected to attend the conservation.
The Rt. Rev. Henry St. George
Tucker, presiding bishop of the
Episcopal Church, who, with other
bishops will consecrate DR.. Dun, is
expected to arrive tomorrow. He
will reside at the College of
Preachers and plans to attend a
meeting tomorrow of the Board Of
Trustees of the Virginia Theological
Seminary at Alexandria.
Other, early arrivals will be the
Right Rev. S. Harrington Littell,
retired Bishop of Hawaii, and the
Right Rev. Wallace John Gardner,
Bishop of New Jersey.
Already at the College of Preach
ers for visit with Dr.. Dun are three
OF his former pupils at the Episco-
pal Theological School, Cambridge,
Mass, Of which he was dean when
elected Bishop of Washington. They
are Rev. Donald j. Campbell, dean
of Christ Church Cathedral, Spring.
field, Mass; Rev. Robert Fay of
Warren, Ohio, and Rev. Meredith
Wood, headmaster of Hoosick
School, Hoosick, N. Y.
| The Archbishop of York will speak
lat II am. Tuesday at Bethlehem
Chapel to Episcopal clergy OF Wash
Iington and vicinity, under auspices
OF the College Of Preachers.
4 Admission by Ticket.
The conservation services for DR..
'tDun will begin at 10 am. Wednes-
day. Admission to the conservation
ceremonies will be by ticket only,
but there will be standing room
available outside, where the service
may be heard through loudspeakers.
DR.. Duns Office as bishop and
head of the diocese is in the Epis-
|copal Church House, 1902 Rhode Is
land avenue NV, from which he
will administer his duties as spir-
itual head of the diocese.
At the Cathedral he has two off,
lcial seats, and heavy responsibilities.
By provision of congressional
charter, he will be president of the
Cathedral Chapter, which Is the
equivalent of Board of Trustees.
Under the Cathedral constitution he
is an .ex-officio member of all cathe-
Idral committees. He nominates all
members of the chapter for elec-
ton by the chapter. This includes
the Office of dean of the Cathedral,
"a position, which under a recent
Encouragement of it's authority will
have wider jurisdiction than ever
before.
After DR.. Dunn makes a nomina-
Ition for the post of dean, it must
lay over for at least O. month before
the chapter can act upon the nomi-
nation. 1t appeared last night that
the dean probably cannot be elected
until at least a month after the
consecration.
DR.. Dun also has authority to
nominate members of the Cathedral
Council for election by the council.