Word: nikodim
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...nothing but joy unconfined over the move. There was no debate on the subject; it had been specifically banned to shush any boat-rockers. There were cheers and applause when the vote was announced (142 for, three opposed, four abstentions), and again when roly-poly, auburn-bearded Archbishop Nikodim, head of the 16-man Russian delegation, mounted the stage for his formal admission...
...churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...