WCC Service at Washington Cathedral
Diocesan Press Service. November 7, 1975 [75384]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Most Reverend Jean Jadot, Apostolic Delegate in the United States was guest preacher at Evensong at Washington Cathedral on November 2, on the occasion of the commissioning of the delegates from the Episcopal Church in the U.S. to the Fifth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC). Archbishop Jadot, addressing the delegates, stressed the need to educate toward a realistic ecumenism without obscuring the true insights and beliefs we have to share. The WCC meeting will deal especially with the imperatives of a united Christian witness in this last quarter of the twentieth century.
Participants in the service were the Right Reverend John Maury Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Right Reverend William F. Creighton, Bishop of Washington, and the Very Reverend Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of Washington Cathedral.
Delegates present at the service were Bishop John T. Walker, Suffragan Bishop of Washington; Mrs. Marion Kelleran, professor of pastoral theology and Christian education at Virginia Seminary, retired; John E. Kitagawa, Washington, D.C., youth delegate; and Bishop Allin.
Not present were four U.S. Episcopal Church delegates: the Rev. William G. Burrill, Davis, Calif.; John T. Fisher, Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. John S. Jackson, Jr., Lake Oswego, Ore.; and David E. Johnson, New York, N.Y.
Also taking part in the brief commissioning ceremony were Peter Day, ecumenical officer for the Episcopal Church; the Rev. Charles Long, executive secretary of the U.S. conference of the WCC; and Mrs. Cynthia Wedel, writer and past president of the National Council of Churches.
The assembly will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, November 23 to December 10.
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