Word: halki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctor's son, Athenagoras was born Aristocles Spyrou in 1886 in what is now northwestern Greece. He trained for the 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...
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