Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While it provokes thought, is often sensitively acted, this earnest incident has perhaps been regarded too literally, fails to achieve dramatic impact...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...
...Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy...
...raising of the issue whether Rumania might not be better off as a republic than with her present eight-year-old King Mihai and three Regents. White-lipped and hard-eyed, Prime Minister Juliu Maniu sought Prince Nicholas, found him closeted with the other Regents, Justice Saratzeanu and Patriarch Miron Cristea. "If Your Royal Highness does not see fit to repudiate this interview," the Prime Minister was reported to have said, "I must place my resignation in the Regency's hands." Prince Nicholas is an amiable, weak-chinned youth, a reputed follower of the religious doctrines of Frank...
...Church of Phanar on the Golden Horn of Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...