ounding the issue of the office of Episcopal Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces goes to a host of subsidiary issues: the role of the institutional Church as a quasi official arm of the military; the morality of peace and war in general; the appropriate Christian response to the secular call of obligation to the state.
What may be termed the institutional, mainstream, or orthodox segment of the Episcopal Church was of course the instrument of consecration of Charles Keyser as Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces. It is useful to note that the term suffragan bishop describes an assistant to the bishop of a diocese. In this connection, the general policy statement of an application package for prospective Episcopal chaplains defines the Suffragan Bishop for the Armed Forces (BAF) as one who, "under the authority of the Presiding Bishop, endorses candidates for the various chaplaincy programs. He provides pastoral supervision over Chaplains on active duty and in the Reserves, and maintains a liaison between these chaplains and the D
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