The Rev. Lloyd Ogilvie, senior pastor of...

The Rev. Lloyd Ogilvie, senior pastor of the 4,500-member Hollywood Presbyterian Church, is recuperating this month from an operation on his left leg, which he damaged severely in a fall.

Ogilvie, 57, was hiking alone by an ocean inlet near Arisaig innorthern Scotland on Aug. 15, near the end of his study leave, when he slipped and fell on some rocks. “My left leg was caught at first between two rocks,” he explained. “It turned out that the top of my tibia was crushed in seven pieces. I had to drag myself on my buttocks for 2 hours and 45 minutes before someone came along.”

He underwent extensive surgical repair Aug. 26 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and is undergoing therapy at home.

“We don’t expect him back until November. He has to stay off his feet right now,” said Jack Loo, administrator for the Hollywood congregation.

Ogilvie was expected to return to the pulpit Sept. 13, but on that date the congregation was instead informed of the accident. The pastor also has a radio and television program, “Let God Love You,” which is running some shows taped ahead of time.

“I had just finished making editing changes on my book, “Twelve Steps to Living Without Fear,” he said in a telephone interview. “I had to use all 12 steps when I was trying to get help.”

CONVENTIONS

The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, a 700-member body of conservative Catholics, began its 10th annual meeting Friday at the New Otani Hotel, the same place where the papal party accompanying Pope John Paul II stayed for two nights last week. Archbishop Roger M. Mahony will attend tonight’s banquet, at which the speaker is Msgr. George A. Kelly of St. John’s University in Jamaica, N.Y. Cardinal Timothy Manning will preach the homily at the closing Mass 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the nearby St. Vibiana’s Cathedral.

The United Church of Christ’s Board for World Ministries and its domestic counterpart, the Board for Homeland Ministries, will begin concurrent four-day meetings Thursday in Pasadena. The annual meetings will consider a wide range of social justice and missionary questions at the Hilton Hotel and the Holiday Inn.

HOLIDAY

Jews traditionally visit the graves of family members and friends in the period between Rosh Hashanah and the close of the High Holy Days, Yom Kippur, which this year is next Saturday. More than 2,000 persons are expected at Kevor Avot memorial services 10 a.m. Sunday at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park near Burbank. Six rabbis will take part, including Sinai Temple’s Rabbi Alan Schranz, who will give the memorial address.

DATES

Adela Yarbro Collins, professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Notre Dame, will lecture at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Chapman College in Orange--a school related to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)--on “Women’s History, Sexuality and the Bible” and “The Gospel and Women: A Feminist Interpretation of the Bible,” respectively.