Word: roman canon
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that he has been released by them to weaken the Russian Church by making a factional fight. Many of the peasants and clergy are behind the old order of things in the patriarchate. They have a strong point of canon law in their favor in the fact that no patriarch can be deposed without the written consent of his peer. This written consent the radicals failed to obtain from Tikhon's peer, Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, and from him the quasi Patriarch of Moscow is now said to be seeking...