Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waving banners inscribed DEATH TO THE MURDERERS, a mob of more than 1,000 Armenians surged and shouted in front of Manhattan's Homicide Court one day last week. To be arraigned were seven men accused of stabbing to death huge Archbishop Leon Tourian, primate of 130,000 souls in the Armenian Apostolic Church in America, before the altar of Holy Cross Armenian Church on Christmas Eve (TIME, Jan. 1). The mob lusted to get their vengeful hands upon the seven, but 75 mounted police charged into the street, drove them back. From nowhere, a patrol wagon whizzed...
Meanwhile the murder of Archbishop Tourian continued to cause violent repercussions wherever there were Armenians to line up for or against the Tashnag, Armenian ultra-nationalist party. Tashnag members were supposed to have drawn lots to pick the Archbishop's killers. In Boston a noisy anti-Tashnag mass meeting was held. In Philadelphia, 500 members of St. Gregory's Apostolic Armenian Church took possession of the building, guarded it in relays night & day, ousted their hot-eyed pastor, Rev. Bassig Sarkisian. They charged that in defiance of the orders of the Catholicos, supreme head of the Armenian Church...
Last week the District Attorney of Warsaw confiscated 1,000 suspicious-looking divorce petitions in the Orthodox consistory house, obtained indictments not only against five Orthodox bishops but also against the highest prelate in the church, heavy-bearded Archbishop Djonizy (Dionitius) Waledynski. "Your Grace," cried the District Attorney, "I accuse you of abusing your legal powers!" For such abuse the Archbishop faced a possible sentence of five years in prison...
Contrariwise, His Eminence Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, was perfecting last week a "Save the Starving Russians" drive understood to have been directly inspired by the Supreme Pontiff. German Protestants have pledged co-operation through their Union of Evangelical Churches. As Executive Secretary the Cardinal has picked Dr. Ewald Ammende. administrator of Catholic famine relief in Russia during the years 1920-22, years now admitted by Soviet leaders to have been among the hungriest in Russian historv...
...Manhattan. Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, 77, rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral for 47 years, was appointed vicar general, second in rank in the archdiocese. Long Cardinal Hayes's handyman, Monsignor Lavelle has specialized in Catholic charities and education. In his youth he carried the train of Archbishop John McCloskey at his investiture as first U. S. Cardinal...