The highest ranking official in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. is the Presiding Bishop—at present Rhode Island's Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry. The ranking diocese, Episcopalians agree, is that of New York, now ruled by Bishop William Thomas Manning. But several individual churches pay their rectors more than they do their bishops. Of these, none is older, none richer than Trinity Church at the top of Wall Street in Manhattan.
Trinity has been looking for a rector to succeed the late, genial, Anglo-Catholic...
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