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A British public school named Repton (465 students) seems to be a stepping stone to the primacy of the Church of England. The last two Archbishops of Canterbury (William Temple and Geoffrey Francis Fisher) have been former headmasters of Repton. Last week Queen Elizabeth II named an old Reptonian to succeed the late Cyril Forster Garbett as Archbishop of York.

The Right Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Lord Bishop of Durham, was not an unexpected choice. His rise from curate of a Liverpool parish church in 1928 to bishop in 1952 was considered a rapid one; at 51 he is reputed to be one of the church's best public speakers, is known as a scholarly High-churchman with several books on theology to his credit. A Cambridge man, and son of a Cambridge don (a Congregationalist preacher whom he eventually confirmed in the Church of England), Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon by liberals as a threat to the ecumenical movement. But at last year's Convocation of York, he proved to be in favor of interchurch cooperation, was credited with helping along the successful measure to admit the Church of South India into closer communion with the Anglican Church.

As No. 2 man in the Church of England, white-haired, judicially jowled Reptonian . Ramsey may eventually succeed his former headmaster as No. 1.

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