Funny story...
The installation of Reginald Weller as Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, WI on November 18, 1900 caused a bit of scandal. It was labeled the 'Fond Du Lac Circus' because the traditionally vested episcopalian bishops looked a bit too "popish".
Seated left to right are:
1-Rev. Isaac Lea Nicholson, Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee
2-Rev. Charles Chapman Grafton, Episcopal Bishop of Fond du Lac
3-Rev. Charles P. Anderson, Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago.
Standing left to right are:
4-Fr. Anthony Kozlowski of the Polish National Catholic Church
5-Rev. G. M. Williams, Episcopal Bishop of Marquette (now Northern Michigan)
6-Bishop Weller
7-Rev. Joseph M. Francis, Episcopal Bishop of Indianapolis
8-Rev. William E. McLaren, Episcopal Bishop of Chicago
9-Rev. Arthur L. Williams, Bishop Coadjutor of Nebraska
10-St. John (Kochurov) of Chicago--protomartyr of the Bolshevik Revolution
11-Fr. Sebastian Dabitovich
12-St. Tikhon, then Orthodox Bishop of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
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And just as an aside, I believe Fond du Lac translates to Lake of Hot Cheese! Where else but in Wisconsin!?! Go Cheese!!!
Sorry, I'm feeling a bit silly and sporting a somewhat misguided pride in my birth state.
very misguided
Fond du Lac means "Bottom of the Lake."
Lake of Hot Cheese would be something like Lac de Fromage Chaud.
Or something.
It's been a long time since French class...
(And yes, WI is a very beautiful place. Full of weirdos, but beautiful. I KEED! I KEED!)
Ma Beck, I think our friend Tim deserves a prize for his dreadful pun on fondue....
Ah Anglicans.....
When writing about Anglican convert Fr Geoffrey Preston, O.P. (1936 - 1977) Fr. Aiden Nichols "recounts how Geoffrey's encounter with Anglo-Catholicism confirmed his 'horror of the demonstrative in religion though he saw good ritual as avoiding just such inauthentic over-statement'."
So true. So very, very true.
Good taste gone to waste!
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