Evening star., 1952-09-07
Districts Delegation
To Episcopal Farley
Led by Bishop Dun
By Cospor Names
Stur Stoff Correspondent

BOSTON. Sept. 6.-The Rt. Rev.
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington,
heads a large contingent of Dis
trict area delegates and visitors
to the 57th triennial General Con-
vention of the Episcopal Church
opening here tomorrow night.
More than 10000 clergymen,
and visitors will attend
the service officially opening the
two week meeting. The worship
will be held in Boston Garden.
The General Convention was last
held in Boston in 1904. +
Business sessions of the conven-
ton will start Monday. The legis-
lative body of the Episcopal
Church consists of a House of
Bishops and a House of Deputies.
The former is composed of the 1853
bishops from all dioceses and from
missionary districts throughout
the world. The latter has more
than 600 clerical and lay deputies.
Either house may initiate legis-
lation but both houses must pass
a bill before it can become church
law.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sher-
rill, Presiding Bishop of the Epis-
copal Church. will preside over
the House of Bishops. The House
of Deputies elects a president each
convention at its opening session.
The Very Rev. Claude w. Sprouse.
dean of Grace and Holy Trinity
Cathedral. Kansas City. Mo-, was
chosen in 1949.
Many Problems Ahead.
Among the numerous issues to
be acted upon are the seating of
women delegates in the House of
Deputies, a record budget for the
coming triennium, and the reduc-
tion of delegates from each do
cese to three clerical and three
laymen, instead of four.
The seating of women delegates
probably will be hotly debated. At
Philadelphia in 1916, a woman
delegate from the Diocese of Mis-
|souri was seated by courtesy. Three
years ago at San Francisco four
women delegates were refused reg
|ular seats in the House. They
were offered courtesy seating but
declined the offer.
A record budget Of $5,805, $50 for
each year from 1853 to 1856 will
be presented. This is $610,191
greater than the high budget for
1852.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury,
the Most Rev. Geoffrey T. Fisher.
will attend the convention and
speak at a ecumenica1 mass meet
ing Tuesday night. Bishop Dun
will occupy the platform with
Archbishop Fisher and deliver an
important, address.
japanese to Attend.
Other visitors will include the
Most Rev. Michael H. Yashiro.
Presiding Bishop of Japan, and the
Most Rev. Walter F. Barfoot.
Primate of Canada.
Washington clerical deputies
are the Revs. w. F. Creighton,
rector of st. Johns Church, Be-
thesda, Md; Charles w. Lowry,
rector of All Saints Church. Chevy
Chase. Md. Leland F. Stark, rec
tor of Epihany Church, 1917 G
street NV, and DR.. Theodore O.
Wedel, canon of Washington
Cathedral.
Lay deputies are Bowdoin
Craighill, sr., chancellor of Wash
ington Diocese and a member OF
Christ Church, Georgetown; En-
nest w. Greene. treasurer OF the
diocesan church's program and
a member of st. Margaret's
Church; Lane w. Hildreth of
st. Johns Church, Bethesda, and
Ogle r. Singleton, secretary OF the
diocesan convention.
More than 500 delegates will
attend a triennial meeting OF the
Woman's Auxiliary, which meets
concurrently with the General
Convention. Washington delegates
are Mrs. C. N. Warfield, Mrs.
Waldo Burnside, Mrs. Robert M.
Eaves, Mrs. Oliver S. Kern and
Mrs Harold Quivers.
The Episcopal Church at last
reports has 2.540,548 members and
7,784 churches. It came to the coll
|onies with the earliest settlers,
/ ,607 at jamestown. Va, as the
Church of England. It became
autonomous and adopted its pres
ent name in 1889.