News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. December 8, 1966 [49-4]
NEW BISHOP FOR SPAIN
The Very Rev. Ramon Taibo, Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, in Madrid, was elected the new Bishop of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church. The election took place November 12 in Madrid.
The election of Dean Taibo as successor to the Rt. Rev. Santos Molina, who died last August, represented a reassertion on the part of members of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church to continue within the Episcopal tradition, for several older members had felt that the election of a President, rather than a Bishop, would aid ecumenical relations, particularly with a Presbyterian group. Dean Taibo, however, was elected by a two-thirds majority.
Present as a guest of the special Synod meeting was the Rt. Rev. Luis Pereira, Primate of the Lusitanian Church of Portugal.
It is expected that the Bishop-elect will be consecrated at the time of the regular Synod in May.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SETS UNITY TALKS
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have appointed the Anglican representatives on the joint committee with the Presbyterian Church in England. They are as follows: the Bishop of Bristol, Dr. Oliver Tomkins (chairman), Canon H. E. W. Turner, the Rev. A. M. Allchin, the Rev. G. J. C. Marchant, Mrs. S. Hodson and Canon David Paton (secretary).
This committee is to begin the next stage in unity talks between the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church.