GODLESS RUSSIA
BOLSHEVIK SYNOD RENOUNCED.
ARCHBISHOP’S FIRST ACT AFTER LEAVING RED TERRITORY
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(Received June 3, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, June &. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Riga correspondent narrates a dramatic step by the Russian Church in order to make the Bolshevik atheism persecution known world-wide. Archbishop Nikohai arrived at Riga, en route to America, to take the chair at the San Francisco. Episcopacy, and was no sooner outside the Red territory than l he threw off the mask, renounced the Bolshevik synod and attested his devotion to the Patriarch Tikhon.
Archbishop Nikolai, in a statement, said no clergy were allowed to leave Russia uncommissioned by the' synod If the Patriarch Tikhon attempted to send delegates abroad they would immediately be flung into prison. The majority of archbishops, clergy an'd congregations arc followers of Tikhon, whose position is of the saddest. Ho is allowed only his existence. Free speech in Russia regarding the Church is choked by the stone vaults of the prison.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9722, 4 June 1924, Page 5
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