Evening star., 1946-09-16
|EpiscopaIian Session
To Hear Nominations
For Presiding Bishop
By Cospor Nonnes
Stor StoH corf.spond.nt

S'o' S'oH NofespoNoe"
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.-Nom-
nations for the office of pre-
siding bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church in the United States
will be made today in the House oi
Bishops as the 55th triennial gen.
eral convention of the church en-
ters it's second week. The conven-
ton, which is meeting on the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania campus, will
close Friday.
The House of Bishops went into
executive session to make the nomi-
nations after MONDAY prayer.
The House of Clerical and Lay Dep
uties will consider today the revised
marriage canon passed by the House
OF Bishops Saturday. The proposed
legislation permits divorced persons
to remarry if their petition to the
bishop and ecclesiastical authorize!
Of the diocese is approved. A yeal
must elapse following divorce be.
fore the petition may be made. The
new law provides that the bishop
and ecclesiastical authorities ma,
consider impediments to marriag,
other than adultery in making
their decision on whether the appli-
cant may remarry.
Bishops who have been promin
emily mentioned as leading possibili
ties for nomination to the Office o
presiding bishop are the Right Rev
Henry R. Sheriff., Bishop of Bostor
and chairman of the Army Nav,
General Commission on Chaplain.
during the war; the Right Rev. Gin.
ton S. Quin, Bishop of Texas; tn,
Right Rev. Nv. Bertrand Stevens
Bishop of Los Angeles; the Righr
Rev. Charles Clingman, Bishop o.
Kentucky, and the Right Rev. Rob.
ert E. Lee Strider, Bishop of West
Virginia.
Election Tomorrow.
The new presiding bishop will be
elected in closed session tomorrow
He will succeed the Right Rev
Henry st. George Tucker. who re-
tires December 81, 1916, because oil
age. Canon law DEGREES that the
presiding bishop retire at the first
general convention after he reaches
the age of So. Bishops do not retire
until they reach u years of age.
Authorization for the Episcopa
Church to give financial assistance
to the Russian Theological Academy
in Paris and to the Russian Ortho.
dox Church was approved today py
the House of Deputies. The resolu-
tion now becomes effective as the
House OF Bishops earlier had adopt
ed it.
The Bishop Sheriff. today asked
that the Episcopal commission fol
chaplains be disbanded and that
consideration be given to the needs
of the peacetime armed forces. The
resolution was adopted.
Will Study Merger.
Bishop Sheriff. also introduced a
resolution, which was referred tc
the Committee on Constitution
calling for the suffragan bishor
elected under the presiding bishop
TO be in charge of ministers in the
armed forces.
The House of Bishops will take
up the question of union with the
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.
tomorrow following the election of
new presiding bishop.
The House of Deputies on Satur-
day adopted resolution favoring
continuance of the joint commits
sion discussing merger with the
Presbyterians but provided that the
subject be referred to the Lambeth
conference of Anglican churches
which meets in England in 1948.
before any definite action is taken
1t was announced today that there
are l53 bishop and $40 clerical
and lay delegates attending the
general convention. 1t was also
announced that 848 delegates to the
womens' auxiliary are present at
that groups triennial meeting.
Russo American Accord Sought.
A>SOAHoAOA lIlG IlODt
that Russian and Americans may
be drawn closer together in a
Christian fellowship" was adopted
by majority of the delegates to
the National Youth convention at
a meeting yesterday on the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania campus.
The youth convention held a three
day meeting, ending yesterday. in
conjunction with the Episcopal gen.
eral convention.
The meeting also voted that two
articles on Russia, to give Episcopal
youths clearer view of the sub
ject be included in the next issue
of Plan, the national youth con-
vention's magazine. The articles
would deal with the present activity
of Christian churches in Russia and
with the Christian heritage of the
Russians.
Greetings and a message of good
will were sent by the meeting to
the Russian orthodox seminary in
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