News Brief
Episcopal News Service. November 12, 1976 [76344]
The Rev. Canon C. Leslie Glenn, sub-dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, and former rector of the "Church of the Presidents," died here of a heart attack on Nov. 8. He was 76. Dr. Glenn's 50-year ordained ministry included 10 years as rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., and college chaplaincy to Harvard, Radcliffe and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was rector of St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, Washington -- long known as "the Church of the Presidents" -- for 16 years and then spent nine years on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School. He had been a canon and sub-dean at the Washington Cathedral since 1968.
An across the board pay raise for Church of England clergy has brought the salary of the spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion up to $15,404. Dr. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, received the same $332 increase that all diocesan bishops got under the nationwide Church Commission plan while -- at the other end of the scale -- those clergy classed as "grade A" assistant curates got smaller increases raising them to $3,344. Thirty-eight English prelates now make $8,168. All clergy also receive housing, but have to meet working expenses out of other sources.
An historic Episcopal Church in Brooklyn has been robbed of its tabernacle and some communion vessels for the second time in two years. The rector, the Rev. George Charles Hoeh, rector of St. John's Church in the Fort Hamilton section, said that when the vessels were stolen in 1974, an appeal for the return -- with "no questions asked" -- was successful. A similar appeal has been issued again. General Robert E. Lee was once a vestryman at St. John's and Gen. Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson was baptized there.
Cynthia Wedel, a president of the World Council of Churches and an active Episcopalian will be one of three panelists on a tri-faith ABC-TV program discussing Interfaith Conversations on Soviet Jewry to be aired Nov. 28 at 1:00 p. m. (Note: Please check with local ABC-TV affiliate for exact time and date.)
The Lilly Endowment has awarded a $37,730 grant to an Episcopal organization in Washington, D.C., as part of a major grant program for campus ministries. The Alban Institute, Inc. -- an outgrowth of the Project Test Pattern experiment -- was given the money to organize groups of lay adults to work with students.
The Anglican Primate of Canada is hopeful that the decisions of some of the branches of the Anglican Communion to ordain women to the priesthood can have a "creative impact" on ecumenical relations with the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. In his remarks, The Most Rev. Edward Scott, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada said: "If we are prepared to act but also to recognize that our action must be tested by experience and if we are prepared to have other churches to help us evaluate the results of the action, then we may... be making a contribution to wider ecumenical relations. We may be helping the whole church reflect at a deeper level."