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Note #9047 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

05653
Dec. 6, 2005

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	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.

	Bartholomew, a native of upstate New York who was ordained in Yukon
Presbytery in 1958, 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.

# # #

	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.

# # #

	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 1988 to
1995. From 1973 to 1977, he served as the general secretary of the World
Student Christian Federation in Geneva, Switzerland. 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.

# # #

	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 Baptist who retired on Dec. 1.

	Williams, 53, was an attorney before his 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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