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Patriarch Tikon was unfrocked by the All Russian Church Council. Thus the ex-Patriarch, in the words of the Church Council resolution, " is henceforth a simple citizen-André Bélavin...
According to reports from Moscow, where the Church Council was held, Tikon was judged without a hearing, in fact was not even present at the proceedings. The Council charged Tikon with counter-revolutionary acts of which the principal one was the decree of excommunication he laid on the Soviet Government...
...meantime the ex-Patriarch Tikon languishes in a Moscow prison awaiting a civil trial on the charge of opposing the Bolshevik regime. The date of the trial is not yet known. A meeting of the people's commisars took place, however, and vainly tried to settle both the date of the trial and the extent of the sentence. Most of the commisars were in favor of the death sentence, but Georges Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, protested vigorously. He argued that such a sentence would result in aggravating the boycott against Russia; he suggested that the death sentence might...
...possible that the Soviet Government, bearing in mind that Tikon is now nothing more than André Bélavin, may not feel any undue alarm at sentencing an ordinary "comrade" to death. Tikon's position is indeed precarious...
...Tikon will also be unfrocked before and by the order of the Ecclesiastical Congress now in session...