News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. October 7, 1965 [XXXVI-7]
RETIRED BISHOP OF BRAZIL DIES
The Rt. Rev. Louis Chester Melcher, retired Bishop of Central Brazil, died Sept. 21. The funeral was held Sept. 24 in Columbia, S. C.
Born in Baraboo, Wis., the Bishop was ordained Priest in 1925 and served in the Panama Canal Zone, in Tennessee and in South Carolina.
In 1948 he was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Brazil and was Diocesan from 1949-50. He then became Bishop of Central Brazil, a position he occupied until his retirement in 1958. He is survived by his wife and three children.
PANAMA DIOCESE HONORS LAYMAN
At a service of evensong in St. Luke's Cathedral, Ancon, Canal Zone, the Rt. Rev. H. Heber Gooden presented Dr. Lloyd S. Carrington, LLB, M. B. E., Chancellor of the Diocese, with the Episcopal Church Award.
Dr. Carrington, who will soon complete his 50th year of law practice, has been Chancellor under three consecutive bishops, a member of the Council of Advice for 45 years and is presently serving on the Committee on Constitution and Canons and on the Bishop's Committee on Matrimony.
Dr. Carrington has been president of the Bar Association of the Canal Zone and Acting Public Defender, and is presently Dean of the Bar Association. He became a Member of the British Empire by appointment of King George VI of Great Britain and was also awarded the Vasco Nunez de Balboa by the Government of Panama.
Born in Barbados in 1881, Dr. Carrington studied law at Howard University, Washington, D. C. and has since practiced law in Panama.