Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist press of Russia and China cheered, the Soviet consul general in Shanghai rescued from a Chinese jail an Orthodox archbishop who once fought with the Czarist armies, but was absolved last fall when he became a Soviet citizen and declared allegiance to Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, who follows the Kremlin political line. The Chinese who had arrested Archbishop Victor had accused him of helping the Japs. So did some of the anti-Soviet followers of Victor's Shanghai rival, Archbishop John of the Orthodox Church in Exile...
...Archbishop John, whose mahogany-colored beard is as silky and flowing as Victor's is square cut and bristly, took the Christian view of his rival's plight. Said he: "Archbishop Victor is a good man, well known for his charity and his love of the people. All members of the Church regret the misfortune that has befallen him, and we shall pray for his early release...
Spiritual Provincialism? Britain's Catholic Herald was quick to point out that the Archbishop of York's thrust followed close on the Archbishop of Canterbury's statement, during his U.S. visit in September, that "the 'iron curtain' interposed by the Roman Catholic Church against the Protestant churches is the greatest single obstacle in the way of ... [Christian] unity." Editorialized the angry Herald: "Here we have the two highest dignitaries of the Church of England suddenly complaining in pointed language about well-established Catholic teaching and discipline. . . . Provincialism, whether in spiritual or political matters, is becoming...
Meanwhile, both sides waited to see how many Catholic-loving Anglicans would answer the Archbishop's call to resist signing the marriage pledge...
...Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England...