Newspaper clipping: 'Columbia Native Accepts Post As Lowcountry Bishop-Coadjutor' — announcement of C. FitzSimons Allison's election

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Episcopal Diocese Of S.C.

Columbia Native Accepts Post

As Lowcountry Bishop-Coadjutor

By BARBARA H. STOOPS

Religion Editor

A Columbia native will be the next bishop of the Charleston-based Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.

The Rev. Dr. C. FitzSimons Allison this week accepted his May 17 election to the post of bishop-coadjutor of the 199-year-old Lowcountry diocese.

This morning he is informing his congregation at New York City’s Grace Episcopal Church of his decision. He has served as rector of the large downtown Manhattan congregation since 1975.

The 53-year-old Episcopal priest is a former assistant rector at Columbia’s historic Trinity Episcopal Parish.

In his new position, the widely-known Episcopal theologian and church historian will first serve as an associate bishop working with the Rt. Rev. Gray Temple, present diocesan leader, and as Bishop Temple’s retirement will automatically succeed him.

At the diocese’s 1979 annual convention, Bishop Temple asked delegates to provide him with an assistant, and eventual successor, as he entered his 20th year as leader of the Diocese of South Carolina.

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THE REV. DR. ALLISON

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…be telephoned Bishop Temple and reported his decision.

No date has yet been set for the consecration of the former seminary professor who for two decades taught church history, first at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and then at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va.

Immediately after the special election at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul on May 17, Bishop Temple described Dr. Allison as “a fine person and a committed churchman.”

He is noted in South Carolina and across the country for his writings, with four books and numerous articles on religion and theology published, as well as for his preaching. He has served as preacher on the Episcopal series for the national Protestant Hour and on the NBC Radio Art of Living series sponsored by the National Council of Churches.

He also serves on the board of the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation, where he was a special theological consultant for the recent national television presentation of the C.S. Lewis’ Narna [sic — “Narnia”] fantasy, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” which won tremendous critical acclaim.

The son of Mrs. J. Richard Allison of Columbia, and the late Dr. Allison, he is a graduate of the University of the South, receiving an M. Div. from Virginia Seminary and a ph.d. from Oxford University in Great Britain. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from the University of the South in 1978.

He served in Italy with the U.S.

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Army in World War II and was ordained a priest in May 1951.

From 1952 to 54, he was assistant rector at Trinity Parish in Columbia and chaplain to students at the University of South Carolina. He also was

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priest in charge of several mission congregations in Tennessee before becoming a seminary professor.

He has served as visiting professor in Reformation Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, visiting professor for doctoral studies at St. Mary’s Seminary and the Uni-

versity of Baltimore, Md., and adjunct professor of homiletics at the General Theological Seminary in New York.

He is married to the former Martha Alston Parker of Georgetown and they have three sons and a daugh­ter.