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Epistles and Statements, 1918–1923

St Tikhon of Moscow, The Christian East, 1920–23; Emhardt, 1929

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Ukase by Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias, to the Most Reverend Platon, Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa, temporary Administrator of the North American Diocese.

By the decision of the Sacred Synod of April 14/27, 1922, Your Eminence was appointed temporary Administrator of the North American Diocese. . . . At present, having been informed of the condition of the North American Church, we have deemed it indispensable to appoint you Administrator of the North American Church, releasing you at the same time from the (duties of the) administration of the Kherson and Odessa Diocese.

September 29, 1923, No. 41.

TIKHON, Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias.
Moscow, Donskoy Monastery.

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