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...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...
...Greeks who had tried to oust him in order that the peace might come at Lausanne, and whom he promptly excommunicated. He is also charged with entering the country on a foreign passport. Seeing the storms on his horizon, Patriarch Metataxis turned over his ecclesiastical authority to the Holy Synod of Constantinople, and, according to British reports, has left the city. It is impossible for him, therefore, to help his fellow Patriarch in distress, the Most Rev. Tikhon. And if possible, the Turks will prevent Constantinople from becoming the seat of any other Greek Orthodox Patriarch. The Greek Orthodox Church...
...Board of Trustees of New York's great cathedral met in the Synod House and made plans for the completion of the vast sanctuary. The project was started over 50 years ago by Bishop Horatio Potter. The cornerstone was laid in 1892. During the ensuing decade and a half the chancel and seven chapels were dedicated. In 1911-14 the foundations of the tremendous nave were laid, reminding one of the appeal of the Roman Catholic Cardinal to the mediaeval churchmen of Seville: " Let us lay here the foundations of such a cathedral that men will say we were...