Word: mariameyeh
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...Damascus this week, at the Cathedral of Mariameyeh (the Virgin Mary), a short, portly man with rosy cheeks and a long white beard, in vestments of gold and silver brocade, received a golden staff topped with twin serpents-and thus became the 173rd Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, the post revered by Eastern Orthodoxy as the oldest seat in Christendom.-Behind his election loomed a battle between Communism and the West...
Next the archbishops were locked into the Cathedral of Mariameyeh to vote on one of the three top candidates. Within 30 minutes, the result was announced: Tripoli's Archbishop Abu Rajaili became Patriarch Theodosios...
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