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This week, in his flowing robes and black-veiled hat, Archbishop Athenagoras moved among his congregations saying goodbye to the U.S. forever. In a few weeks he would leave for Istanbul to become his church's Ecumenical Patriarch, acknowledged as the supreme office among the Eastern Orthodox churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nylon Patriarch | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans of Istanbul assemble with their five alternates to elect a new patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nylon Patriarch | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...absolutely and eternally morally wrong, and utterly and flatly incompatible with the way of life Christ has revealed and Christianity has established." Thus writes Rufus Jones, famed Quaker patriarch, in the introduction to his collection of essays on Christian pacifism, published last week. Few of the eleven contributors to The Church, the Gospel and War (Harper; $2) are so downright. But all of them are sure that Christians should be pacifists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Just War? | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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