Behind crucifers and candle bearers, vergers, marshals and a blaze of flags, six processions filed into Washington's Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul one day last week. In the last procession, robed in white, red and black, walked a slight, silver-haired grocer's son from Oshkosh, Wis. to be installed as the 21st Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.
The Right Rev. Arthur Carl Lichtenberger. 59. sat in a carved oak throne 22 ft. high to hear the formal words of induction pronounced by his predecessor. Bishop Henry Knox...
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