PATRIARCH DENOUNCED.
NEW "BED" BISHOPS
LONDON, April 19.—The Soviet press lias renewed' ita violent attacks oin the patriarch Tikhon, employing renegadeclergy aud newly-created bishops for this purpose, says the 1 Riga correspondent 'of the Times.
Siberia's "Red" Metropolitan, Vedensky, whom a crowd! ineffectually etoned in June for giving evidence agaitist the Petrograd Metropolitan, Benjamin, demand's in Izvcstia, 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 on 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 the Government.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16116, 3 May 1923, Page 6
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