Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary for the Methodists to extend aid to the Russian Church to forestall Roman Catholic overtures...
...asked that the Methodist Church officially support his stand, and that it contribute to the fund of $51,000 that he had promised to the Russian Church...
...inception of the matter was last Spring when the Methodist Church, at the request of the Soviet Government, appointed a board to aid in the reorganization of the Russian Church (TIME, March 3). The board was later recalled, but Bishop Blake, resident Bishop of Paris, attended in private capacity the Russian Church conference which unfrocked Patriarch Tikhon. He pledged $51,000 to that body to educate its young priests, made an address defending the Soviet Government. For these activities he was ordered" from Moscow by the Methodist Church...
...backed by the majority of the Russian people...
...Methodist Bishops had officially offered support to the Living Church, or reorganized Russian Church, they would have directly opposed the attitude taken by the American Protestant Episcopal churches. The Episcopalians have favored that faction of the Russian Orthodox Church which upheld Patriarch Tikhon whom the other faction, or Living Church, unfrocked...