Anglican Church

LONDON - The archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's 79 million Anglican Christians, said yesterday that he would convene an extraordinary meeting of church leaders here to avert a schism over the confirmation of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States. The archbishop, Rowan Williams, regarded as first among equals in the Anglican Church, said the meeting would be held in October. "I am clear that the anxieties caused by recent developments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their consequences," he said in a statement.

The Rev. Edward Meeks and his flock attended to a "million and one details" last week in the run-up to a momentous day for their church. People to talk to. Flowers to arrange. Food to cook. And, of course, the new sign. On Sunday, Christ the King Church - Anglican - became Christ the King Catholic Church. The Towson congregation of about 140 is one of the first groups in the United States to join a new "ordinariate" established for those who want to be Catholic but hold on to Anglican traditions.

The Rev. Edward Meeks and his flock attended to a "million and one details" last week in the run-up to a momentous day for their church. People to talk to. Flowers to arrange. Food to cook. And, of course, the new sign. On Sunday, Christ the King Church - Anglican - became Christ the King Catholic Church. The Towson congregation of about 140 is one of the first groups in the United States to join a new "ordinariate" established for those who want to be Catholic but hold on to Anglican traditions.

I hope Dan Rodricks has gone into his "bob-and-weave. " No doubt his column Thursday ( "Not enough priests? End celibacy, ordain women," Oct. 28 ) will have the more conservative Catholic faithful throwing theological haymakers his way. The thing is he's absolutely right. The problems in the priesthood were brought home to me on a personal level. My uncle was a Jesuit and chairman of the organic chemistry department at a medium-size university. He was in the order for 38 years.

On May 18, 2005, ELIZABETH LEVIS BROWNE; beloved wife of the late Frank Lee Brown; devoted mother of Christopher Lee Browne, Timothy Lee Browne and Carroll Lee Browne; dear sister of the late Elinor Levis Himes; dear grandmother of Rachael, Aaron, Holly, Hope and Heather Browne. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook), on Friday and Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held Monday, 10 A.M. at St. Albans Anglican Church, Joppa, MD. Interment Oaklawn Cemetery.

On January 21, 2005, LT. COL. JAMES W. CLARK, (U.S.A. Retired), of Bel Air, MD; beloved husband of Vera Clark; devoted father of James Brock Clark and Anna Catherine Breckley; loving brother of Sherrill B. Clark. Also survived by three grandchildren. Services will be held in ST. Alban's Anglican Church in Joppa, MD on Monday, January 24, 2005 at 10:30 A.M. Interment will be in Christ Church Limestone Church Cemetery, Hanna City, Illinois. Friends may call at the family owned Mc Comas Funeral Home, P.A., in Abingdon, MD on Sunday, January 23 from 5 to 7 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to St. Alban's Anglican Church, 1011 Old Joppa Road, MD 21085.

RUTH MONITA(nee Akehurst)KAVANAGH, of Port Colborne, Ontario died at the Hamilton General Hospital, Saturday, November 20, 2004 at the age of 82 years. She was born January 23, 1922 in Sparks, Maryland. Mrs. Kavanagh attended the University of Maryland, and then worked in Ottawa, Ontario, New York, New York, Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was also the first delegate to be selected to participate in the newly formed International Farm Youth Exchange, a two-way extension service program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1948, for which she traveled to Britain and Denmark.

LONDON -- Thirty-two women knelt last night in Bristol Cathedral for the laying-on of hands by the bishop and became the first women ordained as priests in the Church of England's 460 years."

EASTON -- When Joel Marcus Johnson dons the purple cassock of an Anglican bishop for his consecration service this morning, it will be the latest step in a religious journey marked by detours and diversity.Johnson, 51, was born in Fargo, N.D., the son of a Jewish father TC and an Episcopalian mother, and his childhood included Friday nights in a synagogue and Sunday mornings in an Episcopal church.Today's ceremony for the leader of the new Anglican Diocese of the Chesapeake will continue the diversity of Johnson's five-year tenure on the Eastern Shore.

I hope Dan Rodricks has gone into his "bob-and-weave. " No doubt his column Thursday ( "Not enough priests? End celibacy, ordain women," Oct. 28 ) will have the more conservative Catholic faithful throwing theological haymakers his way. The thing is he's absolutely right. The problems in the priesthood were brought home to me on a personal level. My uncle was a Jesuit and chairman of the organic chemistry department at a medium-size university. He was in the order for 38 years.

In the wake of Vatican plans to make it easier for Episcopalians to become Catholic, the Episcopal bishop of Maryland would like to make one point clear: The door swings both ways. Lost in talk of the splintering of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton says, is the appeal that the 45,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has held for former Roman Catholics and others looking for a big-tent church. While attention focused on the conversion en masse last month of a Catonsville-based order of Episcopal nuns to the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has received three former Roman Catholic clergy in the past couple of months, Sutton says.

WASHINGTON -- The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori was empowered to take charge of the Episcopal Church yesterday in a Gothic sanctuary filled with well-wishers and clouds of incense, becoming the first woman to lead a national church in the Anglican Communion's 520-year history. The investiture of Jefferts Schori, an airplane pilot and former oceanographer, as presiding bishop of the denomination drew a standing ovation from the 3,200 people in Washington's National Cathedral, which was decorated with banners and flowers displaying the "colors of dawn" she selected as a motif: blues, greens, orange, silver and gold.

On May 18, 2005, ELIZABETH LEVIS BROWNE; beloved wife of the late Frank Lee Brown; devoted mother of Christopher Lee Browne, Timothy Lee Browne and Carroll Lee Browne; dear sister of the late Elinor Levis Himes; dear grandmother of Rachael, Aaron, Holly, Hope and Heather Browne. Friends may call at the family owned Mitchell-Wiedefeld Funeral Home, Inc., 6500 York Road (at Overbrook), on Friday and Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held Monday, 10 A.M. at St. Albans Anglican Church, Joppa, MD. Interment Oaklawn Cemetery.

LOOKING FORWARD Sunday Pope Benedict XVI is installed as the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Monday President Bush meets with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. The United States is close to reaching an agreement with Saudi Arabia on tariff cuts that the kingdom has to make to join the World Trade Organization, a top U.S. trade official said Friday. A bilateral deal with the United States would "pave the way for Saudi Arabia to sign the WTO [entry]

On January 21, 2005, LT. COL. JAMES W. CLARK, (U.S.A. Retired), of Bel Air, MD; beloved husband of Vera Clark; devoted father of James Brock Clark and Anna Catherine Breckley; loving brother of Sherrill B. Clark. Also survived by three grandchildren. Services will be held in ST. Alban's Anglican Church in Joppa, MD on Monday, January 24, 2005 at 10:30 A.M. Interment will be in Christ Church Limestone Church Cemetery, Hanna City, Illinois. Friends may call at the family owned Mc Comas Funeral Home, P.A., in Abingdon, MD on Sunday, January 23 from 5 to 7 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to St. Alban's Anglican Church, 1011 Old Joppa Road, MD 21085.

RUTH MONITA(nee Akehurst)KAVANAGH, of Port Colborne, Ontario died at the Hamilton General Hospital, Saturday, November 20, 2004 at the age of 82 years. She was born January 23, 1922 in Sparks, Maryland. Mrs. Kavanagh attended the University of Maryland, and then worked in Ottawa, Ontario, New York, New York, Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was also the first delegate to be selected to participate in the newly formed International Farm Youth Exchange, a two-way extension service program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1948, for which she traveled to Britain and Denmark.

LONDON -- To the sound of music from the 12th and 20th centuries, with the pageantry of medieval ritual, a new archbishop of Canterbury was enthroned yesterday, promising to lead the Anglican church with missionary zeal.George Carey, 55, the former Bishop of Bath and Wells, becomes the 103rd archbishop of Canterbury since St. Augustine of Canterbury (597-607), in whose chair he sat for part of yesterday's service.He is comparatively young for the job of Primate of All England and head of the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion, and made it clear yesterday that he would be a religious activist.

Archbishop Gilbert McDowell, 66, the leader of the traditionalist United Anglican Church, died Friday in Rome after attending 25th anniversary celebrations for Pope John Paul II. The United Anglican Church is not in communion with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of most of the world's Anglicans. It is among the conservative groups that 30 years ago cut ties with the Anglican Communion's American branch, the Episcopal Church, feeling it was becoming too liberal.