Word: varnava
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...Orthodox Church, they had been "excommunicated" as result of an Orthodox-Government row. The Orthodox Church disapproved of the Government's recently coming to terms with the Vatican; seemed to suspect moreover that the Government had had a hand in the death of the Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava (TIME, Aug. 2). The Premier's problem was urgent because under Yugoslavia's Constitution, Ministers and Deputies must belong to one or other of the country's five religious communities...
Bearded priests and bishops, wearing the ornate robes of the Orthodox Church, shuffled down the steps of Belgrade's Cathedral one night last week. They had just prayed for the health of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch, His Holiness Varnava, slowly sinking from an attack of blood poisoning. Some angry Serbs muttered it was "political poisoning...
...More than 1,000,000 Jugoslav emigrants in America are suffering on account of the Depression," said their Bishop Mardary in Belgrade last week to His Holiness Varnava Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church...
Straightway Patriarch Varnava commanded all Orthodox Jugoslavs, in Jugoslavia to pray on the following Sunday "for the return of prosperity to the United States...