Word: patriarchal
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...Serbian Orthodox Church, they had been "excommunicated" as result of an Orthodox-Government row. The Orthodox Church disapproved of the Government's recently coming to terms with the Vatican; seemed to suspect moreover that the Government had had a hand in the death of the Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava (TIME, Aug. 2). The Premier's problem was urgent because under Yugoslavia's Constitution, Ministers and Deputies must belong to one or other of the country's five religious communities...
Bearded priests and bishops, wearing the ornate robes of the Orthodox Church, shuffled down the steps of Belgrade's Cathedral one night last week. They had just prayed for the health of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava, slowly sinking from an attack of blood poisoning. Some angry Serbs muttered it was "political poisoning...
...hours later Serbia's beloved Patriarch expired. In no mood to wait until next autumn, when the Concordat goes for ratification to the Senate. Orthodox zealots attacked two Skupshtina members who had voted for ratification. Police rescued them but their clothes were in shreds...
...Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...
That night in Springfield, Mass., a linotype r of that rock-ribbed patriarch among U. S. newspapers, the Republican (founded 1824), set up an editorial which read: "Such an emotional spectacle as that of Senator McCarran of Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...