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...minute later, a lawyer was telephoning to Brooklyn. An hour later, Archbishop Platon Rodzestvensky had reëntered his home and his Cathedral...
...Russian Church in America (TIME, April 7), by convention vote at Detroit, declared itself independent of the home church, but decided not to join the Protestant Episcopal Church. Metropolitan Platon was endorsed; Kedrovsky was denounced as schismatic...
...question whether these 250 priests have the right to secede from Russia and lead their flocks into Episcopalian pastures is one which is likely to be decided by practice rather than theory. The theory of the business is further complicated by the fact that Metropolitan Platon has been repudiated by the Holy Synod, and one, Rev. John Kedrovsky appointed in his stead. But Platon is still in possession of both his house and his cathedral, while Kedrovsky is a plaintiff before courts...
George Zabriskie, prominent Episcopalian layman of New York, has acted as legal adviser of Platon's church, and has advocated secession from Moscow. Bishop Manning is sympathetic. It is believed that if the Russian church is left to itself, it will wither and die. But if it has Episcopalian support it will flourish, like the green bay, and bring forth fruits of goodness and true Americanism...
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...