PATRIARCH DENOUNCED.
NEW " RED " BISHOPS. . - ,- : . ;> V V LONDON,'. April 18. The Soviet press has renewed its violent attacks on the patriarch Tikhon, employing renegade clergy and newly-created bishops for : this purpose,; says the Riga correspondent •of the - Times. v ;y - • y Siberia's "Red" Metropolitan, Vedensky, whom a crowd' ineffectually . stoned in June for giving evidence . against, . the Petrograd:; Metropolitan, Benjamin, demands in : Izvestia, : that Tikhon , and • his followers pay the, penalty :of activity, against the Soviet, and declares his: intention .to .propose Tikhon's degradation at the church convocation oil ;. April 29. The Soviet Commissar of Justice, Kursky,. in a long declaration, tries to prove that the Soviet tolerates all religions,' and says that Tikhon's; trial is necessary,: and has been forced on they Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 7
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