Word: nikodemus
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Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
...Russian Revolution. The application of Russian Orthodoxy for membership in the World Council of Churches will almost certainly be accepted at the council's third General Assembly in New Delhi in November. In a speech that attacked the Vatican, called for disarmament and denounced colonialism, suety, brown-bearded Nikodemus spouted Khrushchev's line...
Roman Catholic and Protestant observers regretted Nikodemus' anti-Vatican strictures, but they were inclined to forgive him on the ground that his church is hard pressed by the Communist government at home. Said a representative of the World Council: "We mustn't make things too difficult for Christians inside Russia. It's better having the Russians at New Delhi, no matter what they say, than bottled up inside the Soviet Union...
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