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Show GREAT POINT IS WON BY RUSSIAN WOMEN PETROORAD, March 30. Russian women wo-men have finally won their battle for a voice in affairs of the orthodox church. The ecclesiastical sobor. or nhettibly, ha. granted women a vote m parish meetings and councils. Tt hr;s also n'orded them the ritriit to pa r; I- ipa te wjth voiiirt; power on all nieces an, ch;i ri (able and missions rv and ch urc 1 1 economic hurt (tut ions, with the exception of -ui adniii.iistiuth e bodies and tho Episcopal council. Hereafter women u.ay hold the post of elder in the Hunch, and in Hperia crises : may he perrnitu-d to a- t as pf-f Im-rcader, i but will not ho included in the cleryy. ' i |