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Thus, while as many as 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians round the world owed him spiritual respect, His Holiness Athenagoras I, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, held actual jurisdiction over as few as 3,000,000 of them, mostly Greek Orthodox outside of Greece. Yet when he died at 86 last week in Istanbul - of kidney failure following a hip fracture - Athenagoras was widely mourned as one of the world's great holy...
...priesthood at the Patriarchate's seminary on the island of Halki near Istanbul. By 1922 he was a bishop-bearing the ecclesiastical name Athenagoras -and soon became one of the leading clerics in Greece. Perhaps partly to remove him from contention for the powerful post of Archbishop of Athens, he was sent to the U.S. in 1931 as Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America...
...healing the wounds. "Leave your arguments outside the church door," Athenagoras told them. "You will find them there when you come out." At the same time he was such a staunch U.S. patriot that he tried to enlist in the Army on the day after Pearl Harbor. Athenagoras (and Archbishop Michael, who succeeded him after he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch in 1948) joined other Orthodox churchmen in a campaign for public recognition. Most states now recognize Orthodoxy as a "major faith," and Athenagoras' successors as Archbishop of the Americas (see following story) have offered prayers at the inaugurations...
Other major countries show less organized involvement. Colombia, home of Rebel Priest Camilo Torres, martyred hero of the left, has virtually no radical Christian organization; the once active Golconda movement has all but disappeared for lack of leadership. Brazil's Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, is still an outspoken proponent of "liberation," and many of Brazil's priests and bishops, while quiet on ideology, are actively working for change. But the government has become so repressive that it now censors even church newspapers; no visible leftist priests' movement could hope to exist...
...York City alone under the law. For more than a year, opponents-including Catholic-dominated Right to Life groups, some Protestants and Orthodox Jews-have been buttonholing legislators, conducting letter-writing campaigns and otherwise mustering support for the repeal bill. With the backing of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of New York, abortion was condemned from pulpits throughout the archdiocese. As debate on the repeal bill neared, busloads of antiabortionists arrived in Albany to demonstrate outside the Capitol. Some carried signs; others made speeches equating abortion with infanticide and upholding the right of the fetus to life. Some of the tactics...