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...Golden Horn of Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...
...German officer in the Vatican's famed Swiss Guard, is accounted an Italian Cardinal because he was born in Rome. A Benedictine, he has devoted his life to scholarship. An intimate friend of Pius XI, he reputedly earned great papal admiration by a treatise on the Council of Nicaea which he presented at the 16th centenary celebration of the Council, held in the Vatican...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Tacci, 64, archbishop of Nicaea, papal nuncio in Belgium during the World War; in Rome. In February 1922, erroneous reports from Rome told that Cardinal Tacci had been made pope by the Conclave of Cardinals...
...recorded: Merry del Val is no longer young. Last week in Rome, in St. Peter's, was celebrated the silver jubilee of the day in 1900 when he became titular bishop of Nicaea. The ceremony was simple, because of the recent death of the Cardinal's mother. The great basilica was almost empty. With the ancient ritual, before assembled ecclesiastics, Merry del Val said mass. As he came down from the altar, the Te Deum of thanksgiving pealed forth...
...wretched little town of Nisi Yugo-Slavia, will shortly be celebrated the 1,600th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (TIME, Sept. 8) Although this town is in the domain of the Greek Catholic Church, the Roman pontiff and, indeed, all "Orthodox" Christian Churches show profound interest in this occasion. For it was the Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli...