A Striking Presentation.
On March 10th, the Bishop, who is acting as locum tenens of the Aecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, visited the. Archbishop of Canterbury and presented him with an historic ecclestistical emblem of great value and beauty, known as an enkolpion, bearing the crowned double-headed eagle of the Patriarchate, originally made for the illustrious patriarch, Joachim 111., and worn by five sue- . cessive Patriarchs as the emblem of their office. The Emblem was sent by the Holy Synod of Constantinople "as an earnest of the brotherly feeding of "the Orthodox Eastern Church" towards the Church of England, "and that it would serve as an augury of the union of the two churches m the service of our Lord." — "Church Times - ' ' '
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XI, Issue 12, 1 June 1921, Page 281
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