The Archive · 1938

Bishop Leaves

Bishop Victor, head of the Orthodox Church in China, left Shanghai for

Peiping on Saturday, going in the Dairen Maru by way of tao, in which city he plans to stay for a short time. During the last few day: before his departure, the Bishop's House became a veritable place of pilgrimage, with many representatives of the Russian community visiting the Bishop in order to receive his blessing, Before Bishop Victor's departure, a "pretravel" religious service was held in the Russian Cathedral, Significant Jubilee The Russian Orthodox world, at present scattered all over the globe will shortly celebrate a significant and rare jubilee, Nine hundred and Afty years will have passed since Christianization of pagan Russia in the rule of St, Vladimir, who for this feat has been called "e ual to the Apostles" by the Russian Church. The clergy and the people are everywhere preparing to record this jubilee by special celebrations, for the organization of which a special committee is being formed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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