Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
Level | Item |
Alt Ref No | Ramsey 251, ff. 170-188 |
Title | Easter, fixed |
Date | 1973 |
Description | Papers relating to discussion of a fixed date for Easter, including: correspondence between Geoffey Tiarks, Bishop of Maidstone, Gerald Ellison, Bishop of Chester, Bishop Kenneth Sansbury and Hugh Whitworth about the need for ecumenical progress, with copies of resolutions by the British Council of Churches and copy of a letter from Lukas Vischer (ff.170-177, 182-185); letter from the Bishop of Chester to Archbishop Ramsey about parliamentary irritation over the non-implementation of the Easter Act 1928, with reply (ff.178-179, 181); letter from Archbishop Ramsey to Dr. Philip Potter about the need for further discussion in the World Council of Churches for a fixed Easter, possibly for the Western churches only (f. 180); memoranda on a fixed Easter (ff.186-188). |
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Code | Name | Dates |
564 | Tiarks; Geoffrey Lewis (1909-1987); Suffragan Bishop of Maidstone | 1909-1987 |
338 | Ellison; Gerald Alexander (1910-1992); Bishop of London | 1910-1992 |
DS/UK/4956 | Sansbury; Cyril Kenneth (1905-1993); Bishop of Singapore and Malaya | 1905-1993 |
GB/109/11107 | Whitworth; Hugh Hope Aston (1914-1996); Lay Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury | 1914-1996 |
DS/UK/3615 | British Council of Churches; 1942-1990 | 1942-1990 |
GB/109/14231 | Potter; Philip Alford (1921-); General Secretary, World Council of Churches | 1921- |
NA2499 | World Council of Churches; 1948- | 1948- |