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...same day, some 28 miles to the northeast in the small village of Grebnevo, a stocky, balding priest named Dmitri Dudko will assist at local services. Dudko, 56, is one of the most celebrated preachers in his country. But even in Grebnevo he is the second-ranking priest and will not be in the pulpit. He has been assigned to the town as a kind of ecclesiastical banishment. Yet it is Dudko, not Patriarch Pimen, who has come to symbolize Christianity's will to survive in the officially godless nation. As much as any man in the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Trials of a True Believer | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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