Evening star., 1952-05-06
Episcopal Meeting
Plans Expansion Of.
D. {. Mission Work

Plans for expansion of mission
work within the Washington Dio-
cese to meet population gains
were initiated yesterday by the
1852 diocesan convention.
A resolution authorizing a
survey of the areas of substantial
population growth as basis for
AN effective missionary advance
was passed by the deputies at a
meeting in st. Adams Church,
Massachusetts, and Wisconsin ave-
Inues NV.
The action gives to the Diocesan
Executive Council and the Wash
|ington Bishop the power to set in
motion the machinery for such a
move. The matter will be dis
cuSsed at the next meeting of
the council on May Is.
Request BY Bishop Dun.
The motion was passed at the
request of the Very Rev. Angus
Dun, Bishop Of Washington, in
his opening address to the clergy
and lay delegates.
"We must strengthen, re-equip
or relocate existing churches and
open missions where needed" !"
Bishop Dun declared. He then
asked the convention for au-
thorization of such a program.
Later, the group heard report
by the Very Rev. Robert F. Glib
son, jr., Suffragan Bishop of Vir-
ginia, on a similar survey recently
conducted in his diocese.
Bishop Gibson warned the as
sembly that surveys, at best, solve
no problems. However, he said,
they point up unfavorable condi-
tions by consolidation of informa-
ton, which would otherwise pass
unnoticed.
Pine q Lay Delegate.
Delegates were elected to the
Triennial General Convention OF
the Episcopal Church. to be held
next September at Boston, from
nominations by the Diocesan Nom
mating Committee and from the
floor.
District Court Judge David A.
Pine was among those elected as
a lay delegate to the convention.
His nomination, from the floor.
was greeted with heavy applause
by the assembly.
In other business. the group
unanimously passed a resolution
asking the. General Convention to
seat women deputies elected to the
convention. At the last General
Convention, several vestries sent
women delegates. but they were
refused official admittance.
Others Elected.
Others elected were:
Executive Council, clergy-The
Rev. w. F. Creighton, rector of
st. Johns. Bethesda; William A.
Eddy, jr., rector of Christ Church,
La Plata, Md. and the Rev. NAL
colin Marshall, rector of St. Mar
garet's Parish, Connecticut avenue
and Bancroft place NV.
Standing Committee, clergy
The Rev. Stuart F. Cast, rector of
st. Stephen and the Incarnation
Church, Sixteenth and Newton
streets NV; the Rev. c. Leslie
Glenn, rector of st. Johns, La
fayette Square; the Rev. L. F.
Stark, rector of the Church of the
Epiphany, 1917 G street NV, and
the Rev. T. o. Wedel, canon of
the Washington Cathedral.
Deputies to the convention,
clergy-The Revs. Creighton,
Stark, Wedel and C. w. Lowry,
rector of ALI Saints Church, Chevy
Chase.
Executive Council, laymen-
Capt. j. H. S. Dessez. All Souls
Church, 1900 Cathedral avenue
NV; S. P. Dorsey, Christ Church,
Georgetown, and George Bisset,
st. Adams.
Standing Committee, laymen-|
Ernest w. Greene, st. Margaret's
Parish; Lane w. Hildreth, st.
Johns, Bethesda, and E. R. Fin
zenstaedt, Washington Cathedral.
Deputies to the convention, lay
men-A. w. Atwood, st. Adams:
g. B. Craighill, ST., chancellor of
the diocese; Mr.. Greene and
Judge Pine Of TRANSPORTATION
Church, Fourteenth and Gallatin
streets NV.
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