The Rev. Margaret Mullen, assistant, Good Samaritan, Knoxville, has accepted a call to be Associate Priest at St. Peter’s, Chattanooga. She will assume her duties at St. Peter’s on July 5.

The Rev. Jack Rogers, assistant at All Saints, Morristown, has accepted a call to be the middle school chaplain of St. Martin Episcopal School, Metairie, La. He will leave All Saints’ at the end of July.

The Rev. Murdock Smith, interim rector of St. James Church, Keene, N.H., has accepted a call to be rector of St. Martin Episcopal Church in Charlotte, N.C.

Bishop Garnier was known to many in this diocese who worked with him on various projects over the years.

In remembering him, the Rt. Rev. Robert Tharp said, “Bishop Garnier initiated with Bishop Sanders our companion relationship with Haiti, which lasted for over a decade. He was a strong advocate for Haitians and their right to take responsibility for themselves. You always knew you were in the presence of a bishop, yet he was a loving and caring person. He also was instrumental in helping us form the Children’s Medical Missions to Haiti. I am sure a gift to CMMH would a fitting memorial to him.”

“He was a great and courageous Christian,” said the Rev. Carter Paden, treasurer of the CMMH, “Bishop Garnier was one of my heros.”
Very little information was available regarding Bishop Garnier’s death as this issue went to press. The next issue will contain a more complete report.

The Rev. Canon Eric Sutcliffe Greenwood, Sr., retired priest of the Diocese of Tennessee, died Thursday, April 8 in Nashville. He was 87.
A memorial service was held April 16 at Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville.

The Rt. Rev. Robert Tharp issued the following comments about his friend Canon Greenwood after learning of his death:

He was one of the most gentle, compassionate men I have ever known. I learned from him what ‘ministry of presence’ means. It is going to be my privilege to give the homily at his memorial service. I shall remember him as a resurrection person, who was always looking on the bright side of things. Eric was a musician who could play everything from Bach to jazz. He kept up with the changes of time in the church, the liturgy and in the social needs around him. An immigrant from Great Britain, he is the only person I know who came through Ellis Island and would talk about it with humor and good will. I shall miss him but know that he will delight in the presence of God.

In his homily Bishop Tharp remembered Canon Greenwood as “a pastor to many, a friend to all; because he accepted others, for who they were.” “He practiced respect for the dignity of every human being in his own life,” said Bishop Tharp.
Canon Greenwood received an English degree from the University of Chattanooga, then graduated from seminary at teh University of the South in 1944.
Early in his ministry, he served as an organist under the Rev. Throne Sparkman, St. Paul’s, Chattanooga. While at St. Paul’s, he and the Rev. William Sanders (who later became Bishop of the Diocese of East Tennessee) served together as deacons under Sparkman.

Canon Greenwood served in churches from all across the state of Tennessee. While serving in east Tennessee, he was called to be the rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, Memphis, in 1948.

He was called to Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville in 1971 where he served until his retirement in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Florence; two sons, the Rev. Eric Greenwood, Jr., Nashville and Stuart Greenwood of knoxville, a daughter, Catherine Marshall, Knoxville, a brother, Clifford Greenwood, Riverton, Wyo. and six grandchildren.
Marti Greenwood, who served as executive secretary to Bishop Tharp, was Canon Greenwood’s daughter-in-law.