Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there to celebrate was the most impressive gathering of Orthodox Christian leaders in the century. Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by virtue of that the spiritual leader of Orthodoxy, came from Istanbul. With him were the bearded Orthodox Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Rumania, Serbia and Bulgaria, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, and more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks...
Still, Orthodoxy shows plenty of spiritual vigor. Many churches in Russia are still crowded on Sundays and great feast days. In the U.S., membership in the dozen Orthodox churches has grown 35% in the past few years to almost 6,000,000 communicants, and Archbishop lakovos, head of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South Amer ica, predicts that the churches will federate within a few years. Even in far-off Uganda, Orthodox missionaries have since 1920 created a thriving, growing church with 20,000 members...
...archbishop, he produced a series of clear, decisive pastoral letters and allocutions (see box); yet some of his subordinates say that his own policies were often dangerously fluid: "There was no followup, and experiments turned out to be mere episodes." He has been hailed as a distinguished administrator; yet his record in Milan can honestly be rated no better than fair. Appraisals of Montini range from "a great gentleman" and "a complete man" to "a Pacelli-twice over" and "a Hamlet...
...Pius had first offered a cardinal's hat to Tardini, who refused it, perhaps because he had divined the Pope's true wishes, perhaps to checkmate his rival, Montini. Since Tardini had refused, Montini could only answer no. Then, a year later, Pius announced.that Montini would become Archbishop of Milan, a post that traditionally carries with it a cardinalate...
...with jeers and catcalls, he would advance with a sad smile on his pale face, hand half outstretched. Again and again, even lifelong Communists would find themselves kneeling to kiss the episcopal ring. He befriended Milan's business community, yet he was also known as "the workers' archbishop." On his visits to factories, mines and office buildings, he always carried a portable Mass-kit in a briefcase-looking so much like a banker that Milanese irreverently dubbed him "Jesus Christ's board chairman...