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Allin reflects on his golf game: “Golf alone has taught me sufficient humility and provided adequate humiliation to condition my ready admittance of erroneous effort.”

Yellow paper with notes about book on ministry.

"Real distress in the Church." Allin's journal entry in the days leading up to the ordinations of the Philadelphia 11.

A 1975 issue of The Witness shows unfavorable cartoons that emerged in secular publications in the aftermath of the Philadelphia ordinations.

Allin with Ted Scott, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire, at the 5th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya, 1975. Archbishop Luwum was martyred in a…

With Russian Bishop Ireney, 1977.

This map of the Church's dioceses and provinces served as a visual aid for Allin as he kept track of "letters, telegrams, telephone calls rec'd" with regard to the July 29, 1974 ordinations of eleven women in Philadelphia.

"...we pray he can get it all together without giving it all away." Allin, as depicted in a 1973 post-election caricature in The Episcopalian. Allin had his work cut out for him following in the footsteps of his predecessor, John Hines. The…

Presiding Bishop Allin working in his office at Church Center in New York, c.1974-1985.