Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the Russians who were skittish about the relationship. When the World Council was founded, in the old Stalin days, the Russian Orthodox Church refused to join, on the grounds that this was a capitalist plot to dominate the churches. Under the Khrushchev regime, Moscow's Patriarch Alexei let it be known that the World Council might not be so bad after all, and the ecumenical leaders stepped up their efforts to bring the Russians in, finally succeeded when the Russians formally applied for membership last spring (TIME...
Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
Present Strictures. Alexei's church claims about 95 million of Pan-Orthodoxy's 130 million, and it is entering world Christian affairs for the first time since the Russian Revolution. The application of Russian Orthodoxy for membership in the World Council of Churches will almost certainly be accepted at the council's third General Assembly in New Delhi in November. In a speech that attacked the Vatican, called for disarmament and denounced colonialism, suety, brown-bearded Nikodemus spouted Khrushchev's line...
...behind him on the cover: Platon Morozov, Zorin's No. 2 man at the U.N. (with earphone), Alexei Nesterenko, the U.N. Soviet mission's political counselor...
Western churchmen last week had striking new evidence that Moscow's Patriarch Alexei has far more leverage against the government - and willingness to use it -than most Westerners realize. The latest issue of the Journal of the Moscow Pa triarchate carries the terse announcement that the Holy Synod has excommunicated a prominent professor of theology at Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers...