Newspaper clipping: 'Episcopal Bishop Ordained' — C. FitzSimons Allison consecrated bishop coadjutor of S.C., with ceremony photograph (News & Courier, Sept. 1980)
Book 1, Page 324 ·1980
Transcription
A horizontal newspaper clipping with a photograph and a single column at the left of the consecration story; the right-hand column is an Iran-Iraq War wire-service story trimmed incidentally.
Headline (over left column):
Episcopal
Bishop
Ordained
By PETER M. GENTILE
Staff Reporter
The Rev. Dr. C. FitzSimons Allison became the Episcopal Church’s newest bishop Thursday in a colorful ceremony at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium.
About 2,000 persons watched as the bespectacled, 53-year-old Columbia native was ordained and consecrated as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Church in the United States. He will become the bishop of the diocese upon the retirement of the current bishop, the Rt. Rev. Gray Temple.
The Most Rev. John M. Allin, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, was the chief consecrator and capped the procession of 30 bishops and more than 100 priests who participated in the service.
The normally non-ecclesiastical exhibition hall of Gaillard Auditorium was transformed for the occasion with a specially constructed altar and canopy. The hymns, arranged for organ, tympani and brass, issued from the balcony.
After Dr. Allison was formally presented, his brother, Dr. James R. Allison Jr., read the Old Testament lesson, and his sister, Mrs. Frances A. Alexander, read the Epistle.
The Very Rev. John H. Rodgers Jr., dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, delivered the sermon, in which he urged Dr. Allison to "do …
(See Page 2-A, Column 3)
Photo caption (centered beneath the photograph):
Staff Photo by Stephanie Harvin
Bishop Allin Lays Hand On Dr. Allison In Colorful Ceremony
Right-hand column (Iran-Iraq War wire copy, trimmed with the clipping):
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Ira[q] claimed its forces captured a ke[y] Iranian oil port Thursday and c[ut] Tehran’s rail link with two souther[n] oil cities. Iraqi diplomats in severa[l] capitals announced Baghdad’s con[ditions] for an end to the fighting, b[ut] Iran insisted on full Iraqi withdraw[al] from its territory.
Tehran Radio denied the oil port Khorramshahr had fallen and sai[d] President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr vi[sited] Khorramshahr and Abadan to[day], showing “the extent of lies an[d] fabrications put out by Baghda[d] Radio.”
Iraq says it has captured 1[1] square miles of Iranian territor[y] along a front stretching 300 mile[s], and Iran announced reinforcement[s] were rushed to the invasion area.
Secretary of State Edmund S. M[u]skie said after a meeting with And[rei] A. Gromyko in New York that th[e] Soviet foreign minister had assure[d] him of Soviet neutrality in the co[n]flict, but did not pledge support fo[r] U.N. initiatives to end the fightin[g]. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Wa[l]dheim asked the Security Council [on] Thursday to give quick consider[a]tion to the war.
Iran conducted air raid exercise[s] with sirens wailing in Tehran. B[ut] there was no report that Iraq ha[d] carried out a repeat of its Monda[y] air attack on the Iranian capita[l]. Following the exercise, Tehran R[a]dio said many people were worri[ed] about the safety of Ayatollah Ruh[ol]lah Khomeini and broadcast a tw[o-]minute message from the revolutio[n]ary leader assuring the public h[e] was safe and well.
A spokesman for the Revolutio[n]ary Guards in Tehran said Ira[ni]an attacks have not endangered t[he] lives of 52 American hostages he[ld] since Nov. 4. “They are all rig[ht]. They are in safe places,” he sa[id] when telephoned from Beirut.
(See Page 3-A, Column 1)
AI Notes
A wide horizontal newspaper clipping (7779×4112 px scan) pasted on a foldout album page. The clipping is from the Charleston News & Courier, datelined the day after Bishop Allison’s consecration on Wednesday, September 24, 1980 (the article says ‘Thursday in a colorful ceremony’ — likely the issue is Thursday Sept 25, 1980, reporting on the ceremony held the prior day; alternatively, the ceremony itself was held Thursday Sept 25). A staff photograph of the laying-on of hands occupies most of the upper-center; the article by Peter M. Gentile runs in one column at far left. A third column at far right belongs to an adjacent Iran-Iraq War wire-service story trimmed along with the article. The byline is Peter M. Gentile; attendance was 2,000 persons; chief consecrator was John M. Allin, presiding bishop, who ‘capped the procession of 30 bishops and more than 100 priests’; Dr. James R. Allison Jr. (brother) read the Old Testament lesson; Mrs. Frances A. Alexander (sister) read the Epistle; the sermon was by the Very Rev. John H. Rodgers Jr., dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry; photo credit is Stephanie Harvin; Bishop Allison is described as a ‘53-year-old Columbia native.’ The article jump is ‘(See Page 2-A, Column 3)’; the bio continuation is not preserved in the clipping.
The right-hand column is news of the Iran–Iraq War (which began 22 Sept 1980), captured incidentally when the consecration story was clipped from the page. References to the 52 American hostages “since Nov. 4” peg the article to the second-to-last week of the Iran hostage crisis (Nov 4 1979 – Jan 20 1981).