Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News that Tsar Boris' devoutly Catholic mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, was rushing to Sofia in her gilded baroque private car caused His Majesty to order a rush-baptism of the babe, Maria Louise, hastily performed in the Palace Chapel by Archbishop Stefan according to Bulgaria's Orthodox rite. Prince Cyril, the Tsar's Catholic brother, met Queen Elena at the frontier, convinced her that a Catholic baptism would have been impossible in view of Bulgarian public opinion. At the Sofia station Queen Elena embraced Tsar Boris, whatever she may think of him. In Rome...
...rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...
With the solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
...Connell Co. Inc. revealed that the Catholic clergy had lost more than $1,000,000 through their investments. The Bishop of Springfield, Mass. was listed as an unsecured creditor for $460,000, and as the maker of notes for $735,000. Denis Cardinal Dougherty, Philadelphia's archbishop, was listed for $25,000. Other creditors included the bishops of Scranton, Harrisburg, Trenton, and Actor Hal Skelly. The diocese of Buffalo, first to bring suit, breathed easier to find it would recover all its $30,000 in bonds...