Word: theophan
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Metropolitan Vitalius, head of the Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim. Nikolas Platonoff, Metropolitan of the Living Church in Leningrad for the past four years, announced he had abandoned the church...
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