Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affiliate of Soviet Russia's Greek Orthodox Church is headed by young Archbishop Nicholas John Kedroff, Dean of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Manhattan. Said the Archbishop last week: "In some ways the Church has more freedom in Russia now than it had under the Tsars. Then the Church was the means through which the Tsars ruled, indirectly at least. The preaching of the clergy was censored by edict of the Tsar and nonconforming prelates were imprisoned in dank and frigid Solovetsky Monastery on an island in the White Sea. The clergy in Russia today...
...corporation is not a man but a man may be a corporation. One corporate-man is George Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago. In order to carry on the temporal affairs of his busy diocese this Prince of the Roman Catholic Church is "incorporated by law in order to give him legal capacities and advantages not possessed by natural persons." He is technically known as a "corporation sole," which means that he is the entire corporation with title to diocesan properties...
...last rites, simple but majestic, were performed by George V's lifelong friend the Archbishop of Canterbury and highest Anglican prelates in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Fittingly, since England was burying her "Sailor King," his son Edward VIII wore the uniform George V held so much more dear than the ermine, the purple and the cloth of gold: the blue of Admiral in the Royal Navy...
Dining with Queen Mary, her sons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the royal doctors wore full court dress, gold buttons with the royal crest gleaming on their tail coats above their velvet knee breeches, silk stockings and glistening pumps. A little later His Majesty was found to be beyond hope. With streaming eyes, the Queen and her sons stood at the bedside as George V expired in coma. Turning to the eldest son, Lord Dawson of Penn solemnly made the historic change known. "Your Majesty," he said, "your father is dead...
...Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons," began last week's Pastoral Letter, signed by Archbishop Pascual Diaz and all Catholic archbishops and bishops in Mexico. Its point: "No Catholic can be a Socialist, understanding by socialism the philosophical, economic or social system which, in one form or another, does not recognize the rights of God and the Church, nor the natural right of every man to possess the goods he has acquired by his work or has inherited legitimately, or which foments hatred and the unjust struggle of classes...