Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world, while abbots governed dukedoms the size of Rhode Island. Since then, temporal authority among religious leaders has mostly gone out of style. Last week a cleric who still has much civic influence arrived for a six-week visit in the U.S.: His Beatitude Paul Peter Meouchi, 68, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East...
...Meouchi's, and Syria's President Nazem El-Koudsi phones him often from Damascus. No Middle Eastern statesman of any faith would think of visiting Lebanon without stopping in at his yellow stone palace at Bkerki, near Beirut. "We are everybody's father," says the patriarch...
Ambitions & Tensions. The nature of his ecclesiastical position and the history of his tiny country (4,015 sq. mi., 1,600,000 pop.) necessarily make Patriarch Meouchi a political figure. A proud mountain people who preserved their Christian faith through centuries of Arab persecution, the Maronites regard the patriarchy as a symbol of their national ambitions...
Died. Somdej Pra Ariyawongsakhatayana (means Nobly descended and accomplished in intelligence), 74, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, spiritual leader of 25 million Thai Buddhists, who in 1961 became the first Patriarch to visit the U.S.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok...
...million Catholics in Asia, Africa and much of Latin America. Concerned about the struggle of the church with Communism in these areas, Pius XII appointed one of the Vatican's wisest old hands as prefect: Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, an Armenian who holds the ancient title of Patriarch of Cilicia...