Word: nikodim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government spokesmen profess pleasure with things as they are. So does Archbishop Nikodim, 59, who is substituting for the ailing Metropolitan Yuvenali as foreign affairs director of the church. "In the West, for some reason, thousands of Orthodox priests in Russia are considered nearly as traitors, and two or three [dissident] persons are considered to be the church," says Nikodim. "I don't know Father Dudko. Maybe he is a wonderful person. But I think groups that exist, or would like to exist, around Dudko and others are not for the benefit of the church, since our church finds...