Word: patriarchalism
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...Russian Orthodox archbishop of Berlin, his assistant, Archpriest Sergei Tolojewsky, and Father Arkadyi Zakidalsky arose excitedly at three o'clock in the morning. They were going to Moscow. Emigrants from the Soviet Union for more than 20 years, they were about to return as guests of the Patriarch of atheist Russia...
...hour the three nervous churchmen, their long, greying beards straggling down the breasts of their black gowns, shifted from one foot to the other on their doorstep. The car arrived at 6:30. They still had no passports. In fact, they had never received the written invitation from the Patriarch. But they had had several telephone calls from the Kommandatura's suave Colonel Alexander Tulpanov, telling them that the Patriarch was awaiting them impatiently...
...afraid to ask for anything you want," they were told at the hotel, "even if it is bird's milk." Later, the travelers were taken to call on the Patriarch. There they met Archdeacon Gregori Antonenko and others of the Patriarch's entourage, went to see a nearby church which was functioning. Said Father Sergei: "There are some 34 churches now in Moscow, filled to capacity every Sunday. Young people, old people, everybody comes. But somehow Moscow is a crude village. All the time I was there I didn't see a single intelligent face...
Necessary Compromises. But Father Sergei was much impressed with the Patriarch. "He greeted us with great feeling. He is an able man, quiet and good and simple. He has made his compromises with the Soviet state, compromises which were necessary. As a result he lives well, has automobiles, servants, and a chance tp travel wherever he wants...
Died. Metropolitan Eulogius (born: Vasiliy Georgievsky), 78, grey-bearded Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Paris, titular head of all Russian Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe and North Africa; in Paris. Eulogius broke with the Moscow church in 1931, accepted the Patriarch of Constantinople as his chief until 1945, when he returned to the Soviet fold...