Description:
Moscow--Seven of nine American Protestant leaders on a ten-day visit to
Moscow go sight-seeing in Red Square accompanied by a Russian Orthodox
churchman and two interpreters. Left to right are: Charles C. Parlin of
Englewood, N.J., an attorney; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes of New York, associate
general secretary of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Franklin C. Fry of
New York, President of the United Lutheran Church in America; the Rt. Rev.
Henry Knox Sherrill of New York, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church; an unidentified interpreter; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia,
president of the National Council; Archimandrite Pemin of the Russian
Orthodox Church; unidentified interpreter; Dr. Hubert Gezork of Newton
Center, Mass., president of Andover Newtown Theological Seminary; and Paul B.
Anderson of New York, secretary of the YMCA International Committee. The
visit was sponsored by the National Council at the invitation of the
Patriarch Alexei, head of the Russian church.
Creator:
Sovfoto/Eastfoto, Inc. (photographer)
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., Sherrill, Henry Knox, 1890-1980., Gezork, Herbert Johannes, 1900-1984., Anderson, Paul B., 1894-1985., Religious News Service--Archives., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Ecumenical movement--Soviet Union.
Geographic subjects:
Soviet Union.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:11058