Brothers+ One of the great problems of our society at large and Anglican Church people in particular is that we are in too much of a hurry to get things done. Consider the following paragraph selected from Ecclesiastical History describing the lengths to which the Church of England had to go in order to secure a Bishop for the see of Canterbury in 668 AD. Not only did they endure long and dangerous travels to interview persons fit for the post, once such was found, they had to wait four months for his hair to grow. Would that moderns have been as careful in their concern for the welfare of the Church. Considering the hirsute qualities of APA/REC clergy, should we have to look among the priests for a Bishop Primus, we may have a long, long wait for them to acquire “a crown of hair.” For some, it would be a miracle. Cheers Charles+ ---------------------------------------------------------- From Ecclesiastical History There was at that time in Rome, a monk, called Theodore, well known to Hadrian, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, a man well instructed in worldly and Divine literature, as also in Greek and Latin; of known probity of life, and venerable for age, being sixty-six years old. Hadrian offered him to the pope to be ordained bishop, and prevailed; but upon these conditions, that he should conduct him into Britain, because he had already travelled through France twice upon several occasions, and was, therefore, better acquainted with the way, and was, moreover, sufficiently provided with men of his own; as also that being his fellow labourer in doctrine, he might take special care that Theodore should not, according to the custom of the Greeks, introduce anything contrary to the true faith into the church where he presided. Hadrian, being ordained subdeacon, waited four months for his hair to grow, that it might be shorn into the shape of a crown; for he had before the tonsure of St. Paul, the apostle, after the manner of the eastern people. He was ordained by Pope Vitalian, in the year of our Lord 668, on Sunday, the 26th of March, and on the 27th of May was sent with Hadrian into Britain.