Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Greece's King Constantine invited the nation's Orthodox bishops to his palace, implored them "to become bolder in providing for the religious needs" of their countrymen...
...otherwise ignored them. They may not have realized that the King's plea was inspired by his personal chaplain, Archiman drite* Ieronymos Kotsonis. Last week indications were that the royal recommendations would finally get some action. Ex-Chaplain leronymos, 61, was installed as the 17th Primate of the Orthodox Church in Greece...
Aside from the approval of the King, the first thing Greece's new military rulers sought was the blessing of the Greek Orthodox Church. Premier Constantine Kollias and the chief Ministers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Primate of Greece, and one of the new government's first decrees was an order solemnly commanding Greece's young people to attend church. Last week the junta's reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod...
...more moderate course. "Greece has gone through very hard trials recently," he said in his first meeting with the new Cabinet. "It is my fervent wish that the country revert to parliamentary government as soon as possible." When he appeared at midnight Mass in Athens to mark the Orthodox Easter, the crowds applauded...
...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...