Service program cover — Recognition and Investiture of the Rt. Rev. Christopher FitzSimons Allison as Twelfth Bishop of South Carolina (2 January 1982)
Book 1, Page 291 ·1982
Transcription
Cover (printed in purple ink)
THE RECOGNITION AND INVESTITURE
of
The Right Reverend CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMONS ALLISON, D. PHIL. (Oxon.)
as
Twelfth Bishop of South Carolina
[Diocesan seal device — vesica piscis enclosing a cross and figures, encircled by the legend “DIOCESE OF SOUTH CAROLINA” with a Latin motto on the bottom arc.]
Cathedral of Saint Luke and Saint Paul in the City of Charleston Saturday, the Second Day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two at Eleven O’Clock in the Morning
AI Notes
Front cover of the printed service program (purple ink on cream stock) for the recognition and investiture of the Right Reverend Christopher FitzSimons Allison, D. Phil. (Oxon.) as Twelfth Bishop of South Carolina. The service was held at the Cathedral of Saint Luke and Saint Paul in the City of Charleston on Saturday, 2 January 1982 at 11:00 a.m. The cover is dominated by the diocesan seal: a vesica-piscis device with cross and figures, encircled by the legend ‘DIOCESE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’ and the Latin motto. Allison (1927–2025) was a FitzSimons descendant — the album’s compiler preserved this program as a piece of family achievement. He served as the 12th Bishop of SC from his consecration in 1982 until his retirement in 1990.
C. FitzSimons Allison (b. 5 March 1927, Columbia, SC) carries his FitzSimons descent as a middle name — almost certainly through the Allston branch of the family. Consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of South Carolina on 25 September 1980 under Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, he succeeded Bishop Gray Temple as 12th diocesan bishop at this service; he retired in 1990 and became a prominent voice in the later Anglican realignment. The program is preserved as a piece of family achievement. Service order continues on pages 296–300.