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...John S. Kedrovsky. He had asserted that he was Archbishop of his church in North America, and hence presiding prelate of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Manhattan. He had with him papers from Russia to prove it. It was in an effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME...
...been just about a month since Archbishop Platon had been driven into ecclesiastical exile...
Since the War, Archbishop Platon has been in actual possession of the American branch of the Russian Church, but he has been hostile to the new regime in Russia, and did not follow the Patriarch Tikhon when that lately deceased ruler (TIME, Apr. 20) compromised with the new Church faction in Russia. Patriarch Tikhon had summoned him to Moscow to be unfrocked. Thus Platon may be generally identified with the aristocratically inclined "unreconstructed Russian...
...rate, he entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Receiving a preliminary judgment in his favor, Bishop Adam and his lawyer obtained the assistance of a police bomb squad early in July, attacked Platon, drove him forth. But they overlooked the fact that the judge had granted a stay of judgment to hear Platen's argument; hence their ouster was illegal...
Proudly he went to jail. Proudly Platon returned to the dim Cathedral under the protecting shadow...