Word: patriarchal
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...Soviet Government is reported to be getting alarmed over the increasing popularity of Patriarch Tikhon, who was unfrocked last May by the All Russian Church Council (TIME...
...Patriarch's church services are reported to be so well attended that the congregation often flows over into the streets...
These words were spoken by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis to a 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...
...urbane as ever, departed for the house of his fathers with his bride, the Golden Mouse. "Venerated Father," exclaimed Kai Lung, "this is she who has been destined from the beginning of time to raise up a hundred sons to keep your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters...
...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...