Episcopal Press and News
Church News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. September 13, 1974 [74241]
NORFIELD, Minn. -- One of the centennial goals of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, an Episcopal organization to "bring our brothers to Christ" as the Apostle Andrew did, will be programs to bring youth back to the Episcopal Church. Another goal, according to Hugh Bellas, Philadelphia, Brotherhood president, will be to increase the Brotherhood's special ministries among aging and prisoners. The goals were announced at the national convention here in early August. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew will observe its centennial in 1983.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A National Council of Churches survey of 19 churches, released in early September, has found that parish ministers' salaries have not increased as much as those of comparably educated professionals in other fields in the past 10 years. The average clergy salary ($10,348, including housing provision and utilities allowance) is about half of what an attorney, accountant or personnel director earns, the report says. The Christian Reformed Church led the 19 churches in clergy pay, with an average parish minister's salary of $12,250, followed by the Episcopal Church with $11,869. The Assemblies of God reported the lowest average salary at $7,091. Copies of the report are available at 25 cents each from the Office of Professional Leadership, National Council of Churches, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Hiram W. Neuwoehner, Jr., a St. Louis advertising executive, has succeeded Robert E. Kenyon, Jr., as president of the board of directors of The Episcopalian, Inc., publishers of the monthly tabloid of the Episcopal Church.
HUDSON, N.Y. -- Father Ian and Caroline Mitchell and their four children, along with bass player Steve Mendell, his wife, and son, returned in July from a three- month tour of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France, presenting concerts. Father Mitchell's latest work, "Morning Glory," was presented in U.S. Army installations, sponsored by the Department of Chaplains.
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- The Administrative Committee for Educational Systems of Joint Educational Development (JED), has announced that the " descriptions " of the four educational systems will be presented to the respective boards of the participating denominations this fall for action. The committee is preparing guidelines and monitors to avoid sexist and/or racist language or concepts in the literary or visual products of JED. The Episcopal Church, though a member of the ecumenical JED, is not participating in the educational systems project.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The Very Rev. Timothy John Bavin, 39, Dean of Johannesburg, who succeeded G.A. ffrench-Beytagh less than two years ago, was elected Bishop of Johannesburg in early September. He succeeds Bishop Leslie Stradling who has recently retired.
DURBAN, South Africa -- The Rt. Rev. Philip Russell, Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for the past four years, has been elected Bishop of Natal. He succeeds Bishop T.G.V. Inman who has retired. Bishop Russell, 53, was Suffragan Bishop of Cape Town for four years before taking up his present position.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Edward B. Fiske, religion editor of The New York Times since 1968, and on the staff of the Times since 1964, has been appointed education editor of the Times, according to an announcement by A.M. Rosenthal, managing editor. Mr. Fiske, 37, a native of Philadelphia, has degrees from Wesleyan University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. No successor to Mr. Fiske as religion editor of the Times has yet been named.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- Bishop J. Brooke Mosley, who resigned recently as president of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, has been named assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, effective November 17. Bishop Lyman C. Ogilby of the Diocese of Pennsylvania said he had not determined what specific duties Bishop Mosley will be assigned, though he will share in the regular episcopal visitations of parishes. Bishop Mosley, a native of Philadelphia, was Bishop of Delaware from 1955 to 1968, when he was named overseas deputy on the national Executive Council staff, where he served until he became president of Union in 1970.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California will be 100 years old in May 1975 and the celebration will emphasize the theme, "The Faith we Share -- Pilgrimage into a second century," according to Bishop Clarence R. Haden, Jr. A nine-month procession, the Pilgrimage of the Cross, is one of the features of the celebration. A California redwood cross, more than 7 feet high and 4 feet across, will be taken more than 2, 100 miles to all of the 64 churches in the diocese for services and processions. The culmination of the centennial observances will be a diocesan-wide church service at Cal Expo on May 10, 1975, when Presiding Bishop John M. Allin will lead Northern California Episcopalians in a joyous reaffirmation of their Christian vows in an outdoor service.
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Parish of Trinity Church has announced a fall program of conferences for lay persons throughout the northeast for nine weekends at the Episcopal Camp and Conference Center, Ivoryton, Conn. The Rev. Robert Ray Parks, rector of Trinity, said that the conferences are an effort to respond to the Executive Council survey of all dioceses which "indicated that adult Christian education was the number one ' felt need' throughout the whole Church." The conferences will deal with such subjects as prayer, psychology and healing; living in the Spirit; archaelogy ; the Holy Spirit; a Christian in politics; and married love.
GULU, Uganda -- The Rev. Benoni Ogwal, who has just completed two years of study at Huron College in London, Ont., Canada, will be consecrated Bishop of Northern Uganda on September 29. At the time he was notified of his election in June, he was a parking lot attendant at a London hotel, with plans to take a master's degree next year at McGill. He will succeed Janani J. Luwum, now Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Boga-Zaire.