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Iakovos also became the first Greek Orthodox archbishop to meet with a Roman Catholic Pope in 350 years when he met Pope John XXIII...
Archbishop Geron Iakovos, leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in America for 37 years and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, died on April 10 from a pulmonary ailment...
Iakovos headed the two million followers of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from...
Iakovos maintained traditional Orthodox beliefs such as opposing female ordination, but came into conflict with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Greek Orthodox Church after he supported a move by 29 bishops towards the administrative unification of Eastern Orthodox churches in America. It is widely believed that this clash forced him to resign...
...buried on April 15 in the grounds of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass...