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05653
Dec. 6, 2005
Notes about people
by Jerry L. Van Marter
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The Rev. John Bartholomew, a longtime Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) executive, has been named transition administrator for Alaska Presbytery. He will assume his duties on Jan. 1. The presbytery’s most recent executive, the Rev. Jay Olson, resigned recently to join the staff of the Sierra Mission Partnership, based in Sacramento, CA.
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Bartholomew, a native of upstate New York who was ordained in Yukon Presbytery in 1958,
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Rev. John Bartholomew
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has served the PC(USA) in many capacities and
taught for 13 years at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO. After his retirement in 1999, he served as a volunteer in mission in Ghana and as a supply pastor in Wrangell, AK.
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The Rev. Woody Busse has been named interim coordinator for international evangelism in the PC(USA)’s Worldwide Ministries Division.
Busse and his wife, Barbara, both retired from PC(USA) mission service last March after serving for six years as regional liaisons for Central Asia. They also served as missionaries in Iran for 14 years and in Pakistan for four years. Busse has served pastorates in Ohio and California.
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Feliciano Cariño, a well-known ecumenical leader from the Philippines and a former general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), died on Nov. 17 in Hong Kong. He was 70.
Cariño — known as “Fely” to many of his friends — was general secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines from
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1988 to 1995. From 1973 to 1977, he served as the general secretary of the World Student |
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Feliciano Cariño
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Christian Federation in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Cariño taught Christian ethics and philosophy at the Philippine Christian University in Manila and was dean of the university from 1979 to 1986.
He is survived by his wife, Theresa, a daughter, Monica, a son-in-law and a granddaughter.
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The Rev. Colin Williams, archdeacon emeritus of Lancaster in the Anglican Diocese of Blackburn, England, took office on Dec. 1 in Geneva as general secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC).
CEC, founded in 1959, is a fellowship of about 125 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic churches from all the nations of Europe, plus about 40 associated organizations. Williams succeeds the Rev. Keith Clements, an English Baptis who retired on
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Dec. 1.
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The Rev. Colin Williams
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Williams, 53, was an attorney before his |
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ordination in 1981. He has been member of the Council for Christian Unity of the General Synod of the Church of England and of the Meissen Commission, which works towards full unity between the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
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