Word: panteleimon
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...devotion to such pious relics-cherished by the monasteries as much as their beautifully illuminated manuscripts and rare icons-as the finger of John the Baptist and the girdle of the Virgin Mary. Many of the monasteries are dying for lack of new recruits. The Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon, once 2,000 strong, now has only 40 monks; the youngest of them is in his sixties...
...part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such as the bishop of Thessalonica, [the Rt. Rev.] Panteleimon . . . who will be the leading member of the Greek Orthodox delegation to Evanston ... We do not believe that any ecumenical movement can prosper which betrays the sacred right of religious freedom. So long, therefore, as one member of the World Council of Churches persecutes bitterly another member, we don't feel...
...unvarying list of fifteen top Russians-the others being the twelve known members of Russia's Politburo, headed by Stalin. Nos. 13,14 and 15, who may soon be announced as Politburocrats, are: Mikhail Suslov, 49, newly appointed editor of Pravda, he travels in Europe on Cominform errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission; Trotsky called him "slightly drunken...
...Even so, the Church of Greece was represented by Metropolitan Ambrosius of Naupaktos at the ecumenical conference on "Faith and Order" at Lausanne in 1927, and one of its metropolitans, Panteleimon of Odessa, was elected to the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches...
Gratitude & Devotion. Most colorful visitors at the opening last week were the Russian and Eastern Orthodox representatives-bearded patriarchs like Archimandrite Vitaly of Russia, Archbishop Panteleimon of Greece and Metropolitan Germanos, Greek Orthodox exarch for Western Europe. Largest national block is the 78 bishops from the U.S. led by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Many of the Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High...