Word: platonic
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Hitherto the position has been claimed by Mgr. Platon, who was appointed by the recently unfrocked Tikhon and proclaimed by a council sitting in Pittsburgh...
...Platon, picturesque Archbishop of the Orthodox (Russian) Church in the U. S., has been unfrocked by Moscow ecclesiastics, and by them deprived of all authority in this world or the world-to-come, by them branded as impostor. But Platon remains in New York-the unfrocking obviously cannot be literal. He remains and continues to be one of the most successfully advertised clericals in the country...
Archbishop Platon who stays in New York without standing...