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- Patriarch Alexei greets WCC executives.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-30645 PATRIARCH ALEXEI GREETS WCC EXECUTIVES MOSCOW -- Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, supreme head of the Russian Orthodox Church (seated, right), hailed deepening contacts between his Church and the World Council of Churches in a meeting at Moscow with Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the WCC Central and Executive Committees and president of the Lutheran Church in America, and other WCC executives. Between the Patriarch and Dr. Fry is Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad, head of the foreign section of the Moscow Patriarchate. Patriarch Alexei declared that theological conversations are bringing closer "the day when we shall understand the fullness there is in Christ." The WCC Executive Committee members were received by the Patriarch following a five-day business session at Odessa [sic. Odesa]. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-64-2D-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Gilbert Photo Service, Inc. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Aleksiĭ, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1877-1970., Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Bishops., World Council of Churches., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Lutheran Church in America--Clergy., Nikodim, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, 1929-1978.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Congresses and conventions--Russia--Moscow., Interdenominational cooperation--Russia., Ecumenical movement--Russia.
- Geographic subjects
- Russia, Moscow., Russia., Russia., Moscow (Russia), Asia--Russia--Moscow--Moscow
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-30645; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-30645
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:353855