The example set by all Catholic nations should be followed, and the authority of the Pope — the first of the patriarchs — be recognised. There exist no other means of having a Church that is free without being factious, and that yields obedience to the laws without suffering enslavement.

— Ivan Sergejewitch Gagarin The Russian Clergy (1872)

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