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...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...
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...
...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...
...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...