Newspaper clipping: 'Episcopalian Bishop Consecrated Here' (Charleston Evening Post) with procession photograph

A horizontal newspaper clipping with article text on the left and a procession photograph on the right.

Article (left):

Episcopalian Bishop

Consecrated Here

By JACK LELAND

Evening Post Staff Writer

Amidst the full panoply of the Christian tradition in the Episcopal Church, the Rev. Dr. C. FitzSimons Allison today was ordained and consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of South Carolina.

The colorful ceremonies at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium took place before an altar, frontal and reredos that were constructed especially for the event.

The Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, was chief consecrator and led the colorful procession that included more than 30 bishops and even more priests.

Bishop Allison, 53, is a native of Columbia and returns to his native state from New York City where he has been rector of Grace Church for the last five years. Prior to that time he served as professor of church history at Virginia Theological Seminary for eight years. He went to Virginia from the University of the South where he taught church history for 11 years.

He was ordained a priest in 1953 and served as assistant rector at Trinity Church, Columbia, and Episcopal chaplain at the University of South Carolina until 1954.

The musical program was directed by W. Benjamin Hutto of the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul and Joseph Armbruster of the Church of the Holy Comforter at Sumter. Co-consecrators and examiners were the Rt. Rev. Gray Temple, bishop of the diocese whom Bishop Allison will succeed when Temple retires, the Rt. Rev. George M. Alexan[der], retired bishop of Upper South Carolina; the Rt. Rev. Richard Martin, retired executive for ministries of the ChurchCenter in New York City, and the Rev. B. Sidney Sanders, bishop coadjutor of Eastern North Carolina.

The Very Rev. John Hewitt Rodgers Jr., dean and president of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry at Sewickley, Pa., was the preacher for the occasion which attracted more than 2,000 parishioners and visitors.

Members of Bishop Allison’s family who took part in the ceremony included his four children, Christopher Jr., James, Martha and John, who were bearers of the Elements in the service. A brother, Dr. James Richard Allison Jr., read the Old Testament Lesson and a sister, Frances Allison Alexander, read the Epistle.

Following presentation of Dr. Allison and the examination by the consecrators, the bishop-elect then was vested with his new robes and vestments as the choirs sang the Veni Creator Spiritus. At that point, Bishop Allin and the other bishops laid their hands upon the head of Bishop Allison as the presiding bishop said:

“Therefore Father, make Christopher FitzSimons a bishop in your church. Pour out upon him the power of your princely spirit, whom you bestowed upon your beloved son Jesus Christ, with whom he endowed the apostles, and by whom your church was built in every place, to the glory and unceasing praise of your …”

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Photograph caption (right):

Clergymen participate in procession at consecration of Bishop Allison.