Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recover to Christianity the holy places in Jerusalem. Today the British, having at last put Jerusalem under Christian oversight, are appealing to all Christians to be knights of the open purse, and give liberally toward the preservation of the holy places for which the older crusaders fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost entirely gone. The falling exchange of Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, has almost wiped...
...church polity appeals to the Russian mind, in its present extremely democratic state, for each and every Baptist Church is free and independent, and all higher ecclesiastical organization is the voluntary work of churches which wish to cooperate without being subject to ecclesiastical domination. In 1914, when the Greek Orthodox Church was the State Church of the Tzars, there were only 100,000 Baptists in Russia. Today, according to Dr. Mullins, there are 2,000,000 Baptist Muzhiks (peasants...
...stenographer keep accurate records of the proceedings. 2) That three judges (one picked by Bishop Brown, one by the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the third by agreement of the other two judges) shall report as to whether or not there is a schism between Anglo-American orthodox Christianism and modern scientism concerning: creation of the universe, Adam and Eve, birth of Jesus, His second coming to raise the dead and other theological questions. Bishop Brown's book denies nearly every cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith. Bishop Gailor declares that "it would be as easy...
...newspaper reporter as he was being ferried over the Golden Horn to a British warship. He had just finished his last ministrations in the Greek Cathedral at Constantinople, had handed over his ecclesiastical powers to the Holy Synod, and was on his way to the great Greek Orthodox monastery of Mount Athos, in Greece. He had steadfastly resisted Turkish power in " internationalized '' Constantinople. His departure was demanded not only by the Turks, but urged by Venizelos as the only possible means of bringing agreement at the Lausanne Conference. The Turks will now attempt to dissolve the Holy Synod...
...most conflicting rumors in regard to the religious situation in Russia agree on this: the Patriarch Tikhon, of Moscow, was unfrocked by the recent " All-Russian " council of the Greek Orthodox Church. The council was captured by radicals, and the Patriarch Tikhon, who was in a Soviet prison at the time, was unfrocked without a hearing. No man was put in his place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that...