THE GREEK AND ANGLICAN CHURCHES.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SrR,—The subjoined extract from the Memoirs of Felicia Skene of Oxford shows that you were not without authority in your surmise that a bride of the Anglican Communion would be bound to renounce membership in her own Church on marriage with an Orthodox Greek. Possibly there were circumstances in this case which the Archimandrite (Spectator, July 12th) could explain. The extract, the subject of which is the marriage of Miss Caroline Skene, is as follows (p. 51) :— "According to the tenets of the Greek Church a double marriage between members of two families ought not to be allowed, and her brother had anticipated her by marrying a
de Rangabe When they were nearly reduced to despair a ray of light came to cheer them. The ecclesiastical authorities yielded so far as to say that if the bride would become a member of the Greek Church the impediment to marriage might be removed." After conscientiously studying the points at issue, the lady was able to join the Greek Church, and the marriage took place. Nothing is said here of any obligation to bring up the children in the Greek Church in such cases; and one daughter born of the other marriage between these two families became the wife of Arch- bishop Thomson of York.—I am, Sir, &c., A. CARE. Addington Vicarage, Croydon.
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