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Show PLAN CENTRAL RULE FOR EPISCOPALIANS NEW YORK, Doc. 9. A new method of administration of the Protestant ISpisco-I ISpisco-I pai .church adopte.l at tiie recent triennial j con vcntiori in Detroit, wlil make New York' Oity to that denomination in manv 1 respects what the city of Rome is to the j Roman Catholic; church, says the New j York Herald today. I According to the Herald, the Episcopal church in the future will be directed by a presiding bishop 'and a body of twenty-one twenty-one to be known as . tiie council of the Protestant Episcopal church. The presiding, pre-siding, bishop, it is stated, will be the ' j Right Rev. Thomas F. Gallor. bishop of the Episcopal, diocese of Tennessee, who will ooinfi -here shortly to take up his new work. "Bishop Gailor's functions are said to ; correspond in many respects with those of 1 the pope in Rome and those of tlie coun-ucil coun-ucil with the functions of the Roman Cath- olic college of cardinals. Unlike the pope. I however, who is elected for life. Bishop j i Gallor wiit hold office only for six years. 11 j Selection 01 New York as the Episcopal Jj center, says the Herald, was made at the I first meeting of the council held secretly S . in Washington on. November 2". |