Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26
Washington's First Bishop-Coadiutor
By HARRIET CRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

Vivid as the jet age may be, 1t still owes many
' of its most impressive moments to centuries
old tradition.
Next Friday will bring just such an occasion at
the Washington Cathedral, when a Chevy Chase
Md pastor answers a bishops calling in the
Episcopal Church.
Impressive ceremonies rooted in the ancient
past of the Anglican Church will consecrate the
Rev DR. william F. Creighton to responsibilities
in a space minded society.
Elected the first Bishop Coadjutor of the Wash
ington Episcopal Diocese, Dr. Creighton automat-
ically will succeed the Right Rev. Angus Dun as
Bishop of Washington when Bishop Dun retires
sometime before 1868.
The spare-framed. gently spoken DR.. Creighton
whose dark brows contrast with his crisply cropped
gray hair. is a clergyman attuned to the spiritual
needs of people churned by the fast changes of
today's world.
STEPPED in Tradition
Yet he is a pastor stepped in the tradition of
his church from boyhOod His father, the late
Frank Wilmington Creighton, was Bishop OF
Michigan at the time of his death in 1947. Young
Bill Creighton a senior in college when ne
dedicated his own future to the ministry.
AS rector of St. Johns Church, Bethesda since
1896 Dr. Creighton has seen his own parish grow
from a small membership on the fringe OF wash
ington to a present strength of $500 baptSed per-
sons in the heart of booming metropolitan area
The Bishop Coadjutor- ELECT will enter the Ca
thedral for his two-hour conservation service In the
purple cassock of his new rank. Over it he Will
ment of lawn with the full bishops sleeves. the
customary dress of the office since medieval times
Later he will don the rest of the Episcopal
habt-the chmere, sleeveless garment OF black
satin or silk and the tippet, long narrow scarf
of silk which hangs about the shoulders. The
tippet may be worn by all priests and bishops and
signifies the yoke" of service
Before the Reformation, the chimere was worn
by bishops as an outdoor habit part of the Episcopal
walking dreSs"-and also riding dress when they
went horseback.
Emphasis on Guardianship
Organ music and the voices of choir boys will
fill the Gothic reaches inside the Cathedral the
ritual moves through sermon and testimonials to
the canonica election and consents and to the call
of the presiding bishop the Right Rev Arthur Carl
Lchtenberger for the promise of conformity to the
doctrine discipline and worship of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
Later, the presiding bishop conducts an exam
nation of the bishop-eectS persuasion of his call
ing similar in substance to that in the ordering of
priests Stronger emphasis is placed on the bishops
guardianship of the faith and recalls his traditional
pastoral cares for the poor and needy.
The service then proceeds to the ancient ritual
of the laying of hands" signifying the bestowa
of t.ie grace of God. The kneeling biShop-eect Is
encircled by the participating bishops placing their
right hands on his head.
Communion service for the bishops and an Of
fertory and communion for the congregation con-
cude the ceremony.