Episcopal Bishops

Massachusetts. To one of the most important Protestant Episcopal dioceses, that of Massachusetts, Henry Knox Sherrill, 39, was elected ninth bishop last week. Escorting him to a platform for formal notification was his predecessor once removed,* Dr. William Lawrence, 80 this month, who resigned the office and title of Bishop of Massachusetts in 1926 after 33 years service. Bishop-elect Sherrill is a plumpish married man. The realism of 18-months War service at Bordeaux, as chaplain of the base hospital on its outskirts, underlies a polish acquired at Hotchkiss School, Yale, the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. He is on Harvard's board of preachers. He has been serving the past seven years as rector of Boston's murky Trinity Church on Copley Square. In personal attitude Bishop-elect Sherrill is considered high-church. New York. Since the death of his suffragan, Herbert Shipman, in March, Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York has been seeking a complaisant successor. Last week he received a harsh snub from Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 61, editor of the denominationally liberal Chronicle (monthly) who had been suggested for the post. Dr. Cummins con siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning or any other bishop." Missouri. In the presence of ten bishops William Scarlett, 46, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, last week was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Missouri. Before his deanship at Christ Church he was for eleven years dean of Trinity Ca thedral, Phoenix, Ariz.

*The interviewing incumbent, Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery, died this year (TIME, March 24).

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