St. Ivan the Terrible. (Moscow).(ENS)--A campaign by an ultra-right-wing group to canonize can·on·ize tr.v. can·on·ized, can·on·iz·ing, can·on·iz·es 1. To declare (a deceased person) to be a saint and entitled to be fully honored as such. 2. To include in the biblical canon. 3. Czar Ivan the Terrible Ivan the Terrible: see Ivan IV. Ivan the Terrible (1533–1584) his reign was characterized by murder and terror. [Russ. Hist.: EB, 9: 1179–1180] See : Ruthlessness and the so-called "mad monk," Gregory Rasputin, is threatening to split the Russian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. Russian Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox church of Russia, its de facto national church. In 988 Prince Vladimir of Kiev (later St. . "Those demanding the canonization canonization (kăn'ənĭzā`shən), in the Roman Catholic Church, process by which a person is classified as a saint. It is now performed at Rome alone, although in the Middle Ages and earlier bishops elsewhere used to canonize. of Ivan the Terrible and Rasputin are a small but very noisy group," said Alexander Dvorkin, a leading expert on sects in the Orthodox church. However, Moscow Patriarch Alexei said it would be impossible to make saints of 16th-century czar Ivan the Terrible, who ordered the deaths of several clergymen, and Rasputin, whose insidious influence over the family of Czar Nicholas II was a factor in the downfall of the Russian monarchy. |
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