Word: patriarchalism
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High point of the occasion for Britons when the baptismal delegation was received in London: the embrace of bearded Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo and the Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, who ceremoniously kissed each other thrice on the right cheek...
After U.S. recognition of Russia (1933), the Russian Synod demanded a pledge of loyalty to the Soviets, promptly suspended the North American church when it was refused. Recently Russia's new primate, Patriarch Alexei, had a new try. But in his ukase was a familiar clause: the North American church must abstain "from political activities directed against the U.S.S.R...
Last week Moscow's Patriarch had his answer. It came from San Francisco's Metropolitan Theophilus and his clergy, who had carefully studied the new terms: "It would be inconsistent with the duties and obligations of loyal American and Canadian citizens, and contrary to the traditional atmosphere of freedom of speech and political action in these countries, for the Russian Church in America to give the pledge of loyalty to a foreign power...
...boasting a 5-&-io/ store, a saloon or two, and a movie theater. There, some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder of the first of two Utopias that flowered and withered in New Harmony early last century. Exploring their brief history. Mar guerite Young has written a sometimes difficult, often fascinating book...
Patriotic Protege. Balding, handsome Alexei had been Acting Patriarch since Sergei's death (TIME, May 22), and his election came as no surprise. He is popular, strongly patriotic and his predecessor's protege. Said one church official before the election: "We all feel it will be Alexei. . . . It's just like Mr. Roosevelt...