Word: synods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Episcopalian bishops were asked to pay for round-trip tickets to Detroit, for some 250 priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in America. In Detroit, April 2-5, these priests convened in order to divorce their church from the Holy Synod in Moscow, and to unite it, or semi-unite it, to the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...synod of the Provinces of New York and New Jersey Protestant Episcopal Church, met at Atlantic City. The following transpired: ¶ The Rev. Paul Matthews, Bishop of New Jersey, berated Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts (TIME, Jan. 14) for disloyalty to the Church, adding: "If the Episcopal Church admits the right of individual priests and Bishops to interpret Holy Scripture otherwise than the Church has received the faith . . . then it may as well re-sign itself to another St. Bartholomew's Day of Slaughter*; . . . Modernists are image breakers who have exhumed an ancient heresy . . . The spiritual barometer indicates lots...
...laid. The religious services of celebration started in the morning with Holy Communion administered by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke,-as celebrant, Suffragan Bishop Lloyd as deacon, Suffragan Bishop Shipman as sub deacon. At the beginning of the afternoon an elaborate luncheon was served in the crypt of Synod Hall, after which the remainder of the afternoon was spent in meetings of committees and commissions charged with bringing about the completion of the nave, trancepts and towers of the Cathedral. When evening came along, a procession of clergy was formed in which were represented many sects of Christendom; it composed...
...Archbishops of Brusa and New Caesarea. Where the marble steps of the Ecumenical palace go down to the waters of the Bosphorus, he was met by the Metropolitans of Nicaea and of Cyzicus. Taking his arms they led him to the palace gate. The chief secretary of the Holy Synod read him the canon of election. The Archbishop of Caesarea gave him the pastoral staff...
These words were spoken by Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis to a newspaper reporter as he was being ferried over the Golden Horn to a British warship. He had just finished his last ministrations in the Greek Cathedral at Constantinople, had handed over his ecclesiastical powers to the Holy Synod, and was on his way to the great Greek Orthodox monastery of Mount Athos, in Greece. He had steadfastly resisted Turkish power in " internationalized '' Constantinople. His departure was demanded not only by the Turks, but urged by Venizelos as the only possible means of bringing agreement at the Lausanne Conference...