Word: patriarchical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge Russian voice, Nikolai Feodorovich Kolchitsky, Prior and Chief of the Administration of the Patriarchate, called out to each archbishop in turn: "Whom do you choose Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia?" Each intoned the same answer: "Alexei, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
...rejuvenated Orthodox Church, the Sobor (congress) was a great milestone. It was the first since that of mid-Revolution 1917-18. When the Soviet Union finally lifted its anti-religious pressure in September 1943, much of Russia was still under German occupation, and Patriarch Sergei was elected by a conclave of bishops instead of the full-fledged Sobor...
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...
...There are about 400,000 Maronite Christians (about 50,000 in the U.S.). They have a Patriarch who lives in a monastery on Mount Lebanon. Their services are mostly in Syriac, the language in which the Chaldean astrologers spoke to Nebuchadnezzar. Maronites whose priests are trained in Rome but permitted to marry, are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and practice an ancient Catholic rite...