Block to California

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous. . . .

Thus, in San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral one day last week, did Bishop Arthur Huston of Olympia read the Epistle.

Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. . . .

Thus intoned California's Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, while he and 13 other Episcopal bishops, with light touches of their hands on a bowed head, made a bishop of Dr. Karl Morgan Block, 52, elected last spring to be bishop coadjutor of California. Bishop Parsons, a great but aging liberal of the Episcopal Church, had announced his intention to retire at 70 this winter, after an episcopate of 20 years, will be succeeded by Bishop Block. Chubby-chinned, Washington-born Dr. Block, who admits to being "outrageously vigorous," was for 13 years rector of St. Michael & St. George's Church in St. Louis, is a member of his church's potent National Council.

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