Word: synods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attraction of the sins of Manhattan for ministers of the Gospel from the hinterland is periodically demonstrated, and never more clearly than last week when the Chairman of the Sabbath Crusade Committee of the Tennessee Synod of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, opened his mouth in the Bible House, Manhattan...
Last week the synod of the Old Catholic Church sat in Manhattan and to it Bishop Brown introduced an encyclical letter, as did Pope Pius XI to his Church some days before (TIME, Jan. 4). Bishop Brown's letter was adopted; it amazed people, for it stated...
...John S. Kedrovsky was living quietly in Hartford, Conn., and his suit was filtering slowly through wadded files of legal red tape. Last week it trickled into the attention of the New York Appellate Court, which declared that there was no doubt of his authorization by the Holy Russian Synod. Accordingly, the court reinstated him and declared that the claims of bellowing Bishop Adam, Plaintiff Platon, and all other Russian-American archbishops, were null, void. Said Kedrovsky's lawyer...
Mexico. When must a church refuse to obey the civil law? As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...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...