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rug

(82,333 posts)
Fri Nov 30, 2012, 11:46 PM Nov 2012

Former rector of nation’s largest Episcopal church becomes a Catholic

By Greg Garrison| Religion News Service,
Dec 01, 2012 12:03 AM EST

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The former rector of the nation’s largest Episcopal church has become a Roman Catholic.

The Rev. Larry Gipson was dean of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham from 1982-94 and rector at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, where his parishioners included former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, from 1994-2008.

Last month, Gipson was accepted as a Catholic into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a structure set up by Pope Benedict XVI to accept former Anglicans into the Catholic Church.

“The nature of authority in the Catholic Church is what attracted me to it,” Gipson said. “After I retired, I was concerned and had been for many years about the Episcopal Church’s authority structure.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/former-rector-of-nations-largest-episcopal-church-becomes-a-catholic/2012/11/30/22e6e180-3b11-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html

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Former rector of nation’s largest Episcopal church becomes a Catholic (Original Post) rug Nov 2012 OP
Do you mean largest church membership, or largest church structure. hrmjustin Nov 2012 #1
I think it's referring to the parish membership. rug Dec 2012 #2
St john's is my cathedral. Big place my friend. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #3
Oh I've been there, I grew up in Manhattan. rug Dec 2012 #4
 

rug

(82,333 posts)
2. I think it's referring to the parish membership.
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 12:01 AM
Dec 2012

The cathedral of Saint John the Divine in NYC is the largest, larger that St. Peter's.

 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
3. St john's is my cathedral. Big place my friend.
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 12:04 AM
Dec 2012

Processions take forever there. I hope you get to see it if you haven't.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
4. Oh I've been there, I grew up in Manhattan.
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 12:16 AM
Dec 2012

It's amazing they're still building it.

I remember reading a story about how they set up their own masons' apprentice program and recruited for it locally in Morningside Heights. I think the gist of the story was that, aside from providng jobs to the comunity, they figured it was the surest way to have the stream of skilled labor needed to complete the cathedral.

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