Church News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. October 28, 1974 [74303]
PARIS, France -- The Very Rev. Sturgis Lee Riddle, D.D., for 25 years dean of the American Pro-Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France, retired and became dean emeritus on October 1, following a farewell dinner given him and Mrs. Riddle by the vestry, attended by members of the parish, the American community, and other international and inter-church friends. Dean Riddle has returned to live in New York City where he is honorary minister of St. Bartholomew's Church and a member of the board of Foreign Parishes, title-holder of European Churches. His successor at the Paris Cathedral is the Very Rev. Robert G. Oliver, formerly dean of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Jackson, Miss.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Mr. Ray Henthorne of the Christian Church (Disciples) has been appointed director of Educational Systems, a project initiated by nine churches, cooperating in Joint Educational Development (JED). Four educational systems are being developed that will include statements of theological and educational principles, descriptions of teaching/learning opportunities, leader support, and print and media resources. The new project director will attend meetings, follow up on task group concerns, arrange for research, and facilitate the process of resource development. Mr. Henthorne has been made available to this project until 197 5 by the Christian Board of Publication. The Episcopal Church, a member of JED, does not participate in the educational systems project.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- President Gerald R. Ford has accepted honorary chairmanship of National Bible Week which will be observed November 24 - December 1, 1974. Sponsored since 1940 by the Laymen's National Bible Committee, an interfaith organization based in New York, National Bible Week coincides with Thanksgiving each year.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Bishop Robert B. Hall of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has announced that he has sent $32, 000 to Church World Service to help relieve world hunger. The money was received in response to the bishop's special appeal to the churches of the diocese to take a special offering in the summer for famine relief. Bishop Hall said that the money will go primarily to distribute food and medical supplies, and develop local food production in the drought-stricken Sahelian area of Africa. A portion of the offering, $5,000, will go to alleviate emergency needs caused by Hurricane Fifi in Honduras. The bishop said that a number of the 167 congregations of the diocese have developed programs dealing with the problem of world hunger since the offering was taken this summer.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Rt. Rev. Edward R. Welles, retired Bishop of West Missouri, and one of the four bishops who conducted the ordination service for eleven women deacons in Philadelphia on July 29, has been dropped from membership in the American Church Union, according to the Rev. Canon Albert J. duBois, president. Canon duBois said that the action had been taken because Bishop Welles had "departed" from "loyalty to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and to its doctrines and traditions " by his participation in the service on July 29.
LONDON, England -- The Rt. Rev. Stuart Yarworth Blanch, 56, Bishop of Liverpool since 1966, was nominated by the Queen in mid-September for election as Archbishop of York. He will succeed the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, who succeeds Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury when he retires on November 15.
ATLANTA, Ga. -- A seminar on "The Church, Correctional Institutions, and Criminal Justice " will be held at the Absalom Jones Theological Institute (AJTI) here, Nov. 20-23, according to the Very Rev. Quinland Gordon, dean of AJTI. Several models of personal and congregational involvement in criminal rehabilitation will be presented. The seminar is jointly sponsored by AJTI and the Episcopal Commission of Black Ministries of the Executive Council.