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...making some notable ecumenical decisions. During a four-hour Divine Liturgy celebrated at Rhodes's Annunciation Cathedral last week, 23 metropolitans and bishops signed an agreement that one of them called "the greatest spiritual fact of our century." Ten Orthodox churches -including the ancient patriarchates of Moscow, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria-agreed to begin a "dialogue" with Rome on the subject of Christian unity, provided that the Pope will speak with them "on equal terms." Athenagoras will supervise a new secretariat that will arrange for any formal doctrinal discussions with Rome, although no meetings are likely before...
...anger through the meeting room doors. At length, Metropolitan Meliton of Heliopolis, representing Athenagoras, proposed that the decision be left to the individual churches. With support from the Russians, this resolution passed, and five Orthodox branches will join Moscow in sending men to the council-the Patriarchate of Antioch, the churches of Bulgaria, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Cyprus...
...drew commuter students closer to Harvard as first master of Dudley House, a nonresident center with everything (tutorials, athletics) except beds. Leighton thinks Harvard still "needs a lot of fixing." But he has done more than his share, and now he says: "I'm going to retire, period." Antioch's W. Boyd Alexander, 65, was nominally vice president and dean of faculty at the offbeat Ohio school (founded by Horace Mann), where students alternate between regular classwork and jobs far off campus. In fact, he was Antioch's "hidden president" for nearly three decades...
...More Fervent Life. New life has also come to some of the ancient patriarchates. Says His Beatitude Theodosios VI of Antioch:*"Our church is health ier today than it has been for the last 1,000 years." The Antioch patriarchate, fairly well supplied with funds by Syrian and Lebanese emigrants to the U.S., is busily restoring old churches and building new ones, has an active youth movement called the St. Nicholas So ciety, and can afford to give many of its new priests graduate training...
...Boyd Alexander, vice president of Antioch, and dean of faculty. . . .Sc.D...