Religion: To New Orleans

Dignitaries of the Protestant Episcopal Church will spend a good part of October in New Orleans.The Triennial Convention will bring them there Oct. 7 and keep them there until the current business of the church is settled. Agenda include:

Election. For generations the head of the House of Bishops has been the senior Bishop, invariably an old man, highly revered but, in the course of nature, unable to transact heavy duties. This year, for the first time, the highest office in the church will be filled by election, and the newly elected Presiding...

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