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Diocesan Press Service. December 8, 1966 [49-11]

DAY AND SIMCOX TO DISCUSS COCU IN CHICAGO

Dr. Peter Day, Ecumenical Officer to the Presiding Bishop, and the Rev. Carroll Simcox, Ph.D. editor of The Living Church, will publicly discuss the Consultation on Church Union at a meeting sponsored by the Chicago branch of the Church Union Jan. 25 at 7 p. m. at the Cathedral of St. James, Chicago. The event will be on the last day of the Octave of Unity.

Figuring in the session will be the "Principles of Church Union" which were adopted by the Consultation at its 1966 meeting in Dallas. The 1967 meeting will be hosted by the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass.

FLORENCE EPISCOPAL CHURCH DAMAGED

St. James' Church, Florence, Italy, its rectory and sacristan's house were all badly damaged in the flooding which put much of the Renaissance city under water recently.

Estimates of damage are fragmentary but the cost will run close to $20,000 according to the Rt. Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Bishop in charge of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe.

Considerable damage was done by the waters to the property including the rector's library, the organ motor and the furnace. The fuel oil line was broken and the escaping oil covered everything outside and in.