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...that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that it is now a dead letter. Wrote Governor Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism...
Last summer the Serbian Orthodox Church had a fight on its hands. Yugoslavia's Premier Milan Stoyadinovich and his Cabinet negotiated a concordat with the Vatican which would virtually have placed the Roman Catholic Church on equal terms with the well-entrenched...
Orthodox Church. With no legal power to prevent its ratification, Orthodox Church followers (about half the population) proceeded to riot when the Lower House of Parliament ratified the concordat (TIME...
...from three candidates elected by prelates, Orthodox Cabinet ministers, State officials. The Church hastily excommunicated Premier Stoyadinovich and six of his ministers, thereby disqualifying them and postponing the election. The headless Church coasted along till the Cabinet should come to reason. Last month the Government capitulated, promised that the concordat would be dropped. Within a week the Premier and Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post...
...years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able to make good his effort to drive Writer Harrison from Belgrade...