News Brief
Episcopal News Service. November 2, 1978 [78313]
The Rev. Jeffrey Paull Cave, formerly Precentor of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Washington, D.C., has received a dual appointment at Harvard University. The two concurrent positions are in related areas of the University's theological community: Assistant Minister in the Memorial Church and Assistant Director of Development in the Divinity School. At the Divinity School he is in charge of the Harvard Divinity Fund --- the school's program with alumni/ae and friends for annual giving; and he will be preaching monthly at the University church, as well as being involved with program planning there and acting as counselor and chaplain to students and faculty. Fr. Cave spent the last academic year in Cambridge as a Proctor Fellow of the Episcopal Divinity School, and doing independent study in "the art of preaching."
A diocesan convention of the Puerto Rican Episcopal Church ratified an earlier decision requesting the next General Convention to grant the diocese extra-provincial status in its move toward autonomy. The last General Convention in Minneapolis in 1976 granted a similar petition from the Diocese of Costa Rica. The Diocese of Puerto Rico is also asking that the House of Bishops of the Ninth Province of the Episcopal Church become its metropolitan authority, until another structure can be worked out in the Caribbean area. The Diocese of Puerto Rico became a Missionary District of the Episcopal Church in 1902.
The Episcopal Church now has 60 officially-appointed overseas missionaries, excluding spouses, according to the Rev. David B. Birney, Overseas Personnel and Scholarships officer at the Episcopal Church Center. The missionaries are located in 27 jurisdictions within the Anglican Communion. Fr. Birney also said that the new program of Volunteers for Mission has appointed four volunteers for service in Honduras, Japan, and Korea. It is expected that three more appointments will be made before the end of 1978.
A solemn Eucharist was celebrated at the Chapel of Christ the Lord of the Episcopal Church Center here, asking God's blessing on the thirty-third assembly of the United Nations. The service was organized by the Order of the Holy Cross, a monastic community within the Anglican Communion.
The Rt. Rev. Adrian D. Caceres, Bishop of Ecuador, presided at the Eucharist and delivered the sermon. A number of persons from the diplomatic and consular community were present.
A new center for theological education has been inaugurated here by the Episcopal Church and the Dominican Evangelical Church to train men and women for the Christian ministry. The center will stress the importance of the media in the propagation of the Gospel and hopes to foster reflection and promotion of Christian thought in the context of the country. The Rev. David Bergesen, of Colorado, is the new director for an interim period of a year, while the Rev. Ashton Brooks, a Dominican priest, is being trained at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. The Center has 12 students and four professors. Until now both churches have trained their ministers overseas.
The Rev. Cornelius J. Wilson was consecrated here as third bishop of Costa Rica in a colorful ceremony at the auditorium of a girls' school across the street from the Church of The Good Shepherd. The 45-year old bishop was consecrated by the Rt. Rev. Lemuel B. Shirley, Bishop of Panama and the Canal Zone, and President of the Ninth Province of the Episcopal Church, assisted by six other bishops including the Rt. Rev. Colin Bazley, Bishop of Chile and President of CASA, (Anglican Council of South America). Bishop Wilson succeeded the Rt. Rev. Jose Antonio Ramos, who resigned early this year to leave room for a national of Costa Rica to be elected bishop. Bishop Ramos has returned to his native Puerto Rico.
In a circular letter to the clergy and lay people of the Diocese of Central and South Mexico, the Rt. Rev. Jose G. Saucedo, said that he is "very pleased" to announce the decision of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church to grant permission for the election of two suffragan bishops for the diocese. The Standing Committee of the diocese is making the necessary plans for the election at a special diocesan convention. The Diocese of Central and South Mexico is involved in an ambitious missionary effort to bring the gospel to isolated and rural communities which have no pastoral care.