Eastern Catholicism - Weblio 英和・和英辞典 (original) (raw)

1875, C. Joyneville [pseudonym; Catherine Laura Johnstone], “1815–1818. Russia at Peace. Ætat. 37–40.”, in Life and Times of Alexander I., Emperor of All the Russias. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 222:

No clergy in the world were more tolerant than those of Russia, but this was naturally more than they could support when added to the wavering faith of the Empress-mother, whose family were Romanists; and they appealed to the Emperor, as the head and sworn protector of orthodoxy, to check the mischievous intrigues which had taken advantage of his absence to undermine the foundations of Eastern Catholicism.