News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. June 6, 1966 [44-4]
CONSENTS RECEIVED ON RESIGNATIONS
Presiding Bishop Hines has received a majority of the consents of the bishops (with jurisdictions) to the resignation of the following three bishops:
The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, Bishop of California; effective Sept. 15.
The Rt. Rev. Duncan Montgomery Gray, Bishop of Mississippi; effective May 31.
The Rt, Rev. Allen Jerome Miller, Bishop of Easton; effective Jan. 1, 1967
Bishop Gray and Bishop Miller have resigned for reasons of health. Bishop Pike will assume the role of a scholar-teacher at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION STATEMENT AVAILABLE
A statement on the Church and Community Organization has recently been prepared by the staff of Executive Council's Department of Christian Social Relations and Home Department.
The statement is concerned with ways local churches have become involved in community organization; differing theories of community organization; and the manner in which a diocese should decide upon such involvement and prepare for it.
Copies of the statement are available from the Division of Community Service of the Department of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017.