Word: hierarchic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iakovos of Houston-evangelical, reformist, emphasizing his points with exhortations from the Apostle Paul -seemed something of a departure from the ambitious hierarch who has made himself so visible on the ecumenical circuit in his 13 years as Primate of the Americas. "I have not always talked this way," he conceded in an interview with TIME'S Mayo Mohs. For years his passion was ecumenism, his hope to lead a union of the Orthodox churches in the U.S. But now, says Iakovos, "the trend is not to fight for power and supremacy: it is to fight the inequities...