RUSSIAN BISHOP DISMISSED.
DISOBEYING TSAR AND HOLY SYNOD. By Telegraph,— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 1, 11 a.m.) ' ST. PETERSBURG, 31st Jan. The Bishop of Saratov has been dismissed for disobeying the Tear's ukase and the Holy Synod s decree enjoining the expulsion of a monk named Iliodor. [In April of last year the monk secured a remarkaole triumph over the efforts of the "^Holv Synod, the Government, and the police, to remove him from the See of Tsaritsvn, in the Government of Saratov. He is regarded as a demigod by his 12,000 followers, who form the nucleus of a reform movement in the Orthodox Church, threatening to overturn the hierarchy. His exploits have appealed to. millions of humbler church members, who regard him as a martyr.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1912, Page 7
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