Word: nikodim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...invasion of his theological turf with a series of Christian-leadership meetings at which he roundly denounced the World Council as far left and ungodly. Despite a freezing rain, the Rev. Carl Mclntire of Collingswood, N.J., head of the extreme-right-wing International Council of Christian Churches, personally picketed Nikodim while he was delivering a sermon at Tulsa's First Christian Church. Another veteran anti-Red, the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who spent 18 years in Communist prisons, interrupted a World Council press conference. When the organization's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, tried...
...Constantinople, "first among equals" of the Orthodox prelates, proposed the conference, but, following tradition, nei ther he nor the other major patriarchs were present. Chairing the secret daily sessions for Athenagoras was his deputy, Metropolitan Meliton of Heliopolis. Per haps the most influential man present was Metropolitan Nikodim of Lenin grad, the chief diplomat-bishop of the world's largest Orthodox body, the Pa triarchate of Moscow...
...Hooft's suggestion that the council could be discussed in terms that pertained only to the churches. Bishop Samuel of Egypt's Coptic Church warned that "the mere mention of this subject makes the work of the Orthodox churches difficult." Brown-bearded Metropolitan Nikodim, head of the delegation from the Patriarchate of Moscow, argued that it had not occurred to Orthodox bishops that the council "re gards itself as having ecclesiological significance." The Rev. Paul Verghese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who is director of the council's Division of Ecumenical Action, challenged Visser 't Hooft...
They sounded like practicing Russians. At a Denver press conference. Archbishop Nikodim of Yaroslavl and Rostov, who also led the Russian Orthodox delegation to the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi, boasted that "we come to you from a socialist state, where our people are creating a new, dynamic society. The Russian Orthodox Church supports the aspirations of our people for friendship with all peoples of the earth." At the close of the board meeting, the Russians will divide into smaller groups, spend most of their three weeks in the U.S. visiting churches across...