As trumpets blared, the procession of robed clerics marched slowly through the crowded nave of Washington's vaulted Gothic National Cathedral. In side the chancel, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger addressed the stocky, grey-haired cleric who succeeds him as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church: "I, Arthur, do induct and install you, Right Reverend Father in God, John, into the office of Presiding Bishop, with all its rights, dignities, honors, and privileges. May our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your going out and your coming in, from this time forth forevermore. Amen."...
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