Word: theophilus
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...less conciliatory. Tass, the Soviet news agency, denounced "General Douglas MacArthur for "crude interference" with the Orthodox Church in Japan-i.e., refusing to cooperate in a Soviet effort to take over the Japanese Orthodox Church. A year ago the Japanese church, which has 35,000 members, asked Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, head of the U.S. church, to send a spiritual leader to Japan...
Mild-mannered Theophilus Shickel Painter, a geneticist, likes to peer through microscopes, putter in his water-lily garden and hunt in season. As shy as a deer, he makes a fetish of avoiding publicity. But last week Professor Painter, who had been acting president of the University of Texas since 1944, saw and heard his name everywhere he turned...
Acting President Theophilus Painter "tentatively" turned him down, then hastily appealed to Texas Attorney General Grover Sellers for backing up. Wrote Painter: "It has never been the policy of this institution to admit Negroes as students. ... To my knowledge, this is the first time a member of the Negro race has presented himself for registration." Painter wanted a ruling on whether "a person of Negro ancestry, otherwise qualified . . . may legally be admitted as a student...
...into the U.S. Last month the Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite peanuts elsewhere. Metropolitan Theophilus of San Francisco, a stout believer in freedom for conscience and for God's church, told Alexei to repeal his Ukase 94 of last February. Key section of that ukase: Orthodox Churchmen in North and South America must "abstain from all political activity against the U.S.S.R...
Last week Moscow's Patriarch had his answer. It came from San Francisco's Metropolitan Theophilus and his clergy, who had carefully studied the new terms: "It would be inconsistent with the duties and obligations of loyal American and Canadian citizens, and contrary to the traditional atmosphere of freedom of speech and political action in these countries, for the Russian Church in America to give the pledge of loyalty to a foreign power...