. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ch the imperial system. We have spoken above of the HolyvSynod as one of the four great councilsof the emperor. As the name implies,the synod has supervisicm piace of the czarof the religious affairs of l^^^^^^^^the empire; but the czar Greek Church,is at
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. ch the imperial system. We have spoken above of the HolyvSynod as one of the four great councilsof the emperor. As the name implies,the synod has supervisicm piace of the czarof the religious affairs of l^^^^^^^^the empire; but the czar Greek Church,is at the head of not only the synod,but in a larger sense of the he is not a pope overGreek Catholicism as is the Romanpontiff in the West. His position israther analogous to that of the Englishmonarch in his relation to the AnglicanChurch. Russia is a religious is filled with churches and monas-teries, supported in large measure atpublic expense. The Church is a partof the governmental system. There arenearly forty thousand priests in the em-pire, and a vast array of monks and wealth of the Church establishment 164 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. is second only to that of Rome and Eng-land, and the influence of the organiza-tion over the people and the state is far-reaching, if not positively MElKUPULirAN OF bl. ILlERiLiLRDrawn by Pelcoq. It is not here that we would recountthe origin and history of Greek Cathol-icism. Of this it may suffice to say that it is a branch of the common Christianitywhich was established at Rome and Con-stantinople. The schism which sepa-rated the Greek Church from the West-ern Catholics beganwith the rejection bythe one and the ac-ceptance by the otherof the decrees and doc-trines of the Council ofEphesus. That assem-bly was the third of thegreat oecumenical coun-cils of the Church. Thefirst two—those of Niceand Constantinople—had been accepted byEastern and WesternChristians alike. Afterthat, with the
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