Word: tikhon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Individual Soviet citizens have gone to China and enlisted in the Chinese armies just as English volunteers joined the Boers and as Lord Byron fought for Greece. . . . England protests against the aid which we gave the striking coal miners, but the British sent money here for the Patriarch Tikhon. Great Britain must realize that a break with us means a break with one-sixth of the world...
...Moscow last week there convened the Russian Church Congress. The sessions were disturbed by a continuance of the petty squabbling which has greatly aided Bolshevism in its attacks upon religion. The discord was the more notable because the reactionary adherants of the late Patriarch Tikhon abstained from any official participation in the congress; although they are thought to have gained steadily, of late, in national influence...
Since the War, Archbishop Platon has been in actual possession of the American branch of the Russian Church, but he has been hostile to the new regime in Russia, and did not follow the Patriarch Tikhon when that lately deceased ruler (TIME, Apr. 20) compromised with the new Church faction in Russia. Patriarch Tikhon had summoned him to Moscow to be unfrocked. Thus Platon may be generally identified with the aristocratically inclined "unreconstructed Russian...
...Russian Church throughout North America. In 1907, still only 42 years old, he went home, crowned with honor, was made Archbishop of Jaroslav and Vilna. Those were the days of Pobiedonostsev and Devialkovsky, two of the most tyrannical ecclesiastics in the history of a tyrannical church. Basil, now Archbishop Tikhon, was liberal in his views but discreet in utterance. He advanced. Finally, during the interregnum between Romanov and Lenin, Dr. Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch...
...moderate liberalism eventually clashed with the absolutism of Lenin-Trotzky; and, in 1922, when the latter decreed the confiscation of all church property, Patriarch Tikhon was thrown into jail for his opposition. The Red (Living) Church was promptly convened to unfrock him. Early in 1923, a Roman Catholic monsignor was beheaded. Tikhon, awaiting trial, prepared for the same fate. But Lenin halted. Tikhon signed a retraction and was freed...