A STRIKE OF PBIESTS.
Thk London Echo soys : — "A remarkable strike is going on in the Island of Chios. The population in some of the parishes belonging to the Orthodox Greek Church have been backward in the due payment of tithes or church rates, or some other ecclesiastical due. The priests have appealed to the Bishop of Chios, who has attempted to help his clergy by putting these recalcitrant parishes under the Interdict. As a consequence of this extreme measure, with which Western Europe was familiar in tbe middle ages, the clergy are obliged to abstain from the regular exercise of their ministry; they may neither baptise, marry , celebrate Mass, nor even bury the dead. The laity havß taken the last duty upon themselves, and there have been several funerals without any ecclesiastical ceremony. They have appealed to the secular Governor of the Island, however, requesting him to compel the priests on strike to return to their duty. The Governor has applied to the Porte for direction in this delicate question; so that the final settlement of the quarrel between the Christian pastors and their flocks is now resting in the handß of the Grand Turk."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7376, 20 May 1887, Page 4
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196A STRIKE OF PBIESTS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7376, 20 May 1887, Page 4
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