Word: patriarchally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1919, when it broke away from the Communist-suppressed mother church in Moscow, the largest branch of North American Orthodoxy has sadly, steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home...
White-haired, deep-eyed old Metropolitan Theophilus, 73, head of the American church, refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...most significant event in ecclesiastical history since the Reformation." So said Presbyterian Patriarch Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin...
Finally, at a meeting in the interior, a man rose in the audience to say: "You must tell them absolutely clearly that Japan lost the war with unconditional surrender, by order of the Emperor." Another voice in the audience suggested that it would be dangerous, at which a dignified patriarch rose to announce in a commanding voice: "There is no danger." Father Lassalle told them. Absolute silence followed...
Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...