SOVIET RUSSIA
STATUS OF THE CHURCH. MUST RECOGNISE COMMUNISM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 6. Tile Riga correspondent of The Times reports that the Red Church Convocation in Moscow declared tliat the Patriarch Tikhon had been unfrocked, deprived of all his dignities, excluded from all monasteries, and relegated to the condition of a layman. The Convocation called upon the clergy to renounce all attempts to use the Church for worldly or political purposes, but every believer must bo faithful to the Soviet and assist the Soviet to realise on earth the ideals of the Kingdom of God. Bedcnsky declared that the historical duty of the Orthodox Russian Church consisted of the recognition of the truth of Communism, and that it must cease to serve capjtal. The Convocation also declared the Patriarchate abolished, and favoured the clergy of all ranks being allowed to marry and widowed priests io remarry.—The Times.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18857, 9 May 1923, Page 7
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