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...patriarch: the head of a family...
Thus, while as many as 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians round the world owed him spiritual respect, His Holiness Athenagoras I, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, held actual jurisdiction over as few as 3,000,000 of them, mostly Greek Orthodox outside of Greece. Yet when he died at 86 last week in Istanbul - of kidney failure following a hip fracture - Athenagoras was widely mourned as one of the world's great holy...
...year-old battle between Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy.*The gesture culminated in the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and Athenagoras in 1964 on Jerusalem's sacred Mount of Olives, where the two men exchanged a kiss of peace and prayed together. The next year, the Patriarch and the Pope officially revoked the mutual anathemas that had been hurled at the start of the schism between East and West in 1054. In 1967 they capped the new era of good feeling by exchanging visits at Istanbul and Rome...
...Greek Orthodoxy was in a shambles when Athenagoras arrived. Like other immigrant churches, it was torn by the politics of the old country, and Greece had been riven for decades by the struggle between royalists and republicans. In 1922 the new Ecumenical Patriarch, Meletios Metaxakis, had canonically severed the American church from Athenian authority and made it subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople. Despite the disjuncture, political passions continued to divide parishes...
...Athenagoras told them. "You will find them there when you come out." At the same time he was such a staunch U.S. patriot that he tried to enlist in the Army on the day after Pearl Harbor. Athenagoras (and Archbishop Michael, who succeeded him after he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch in 1948) joined other Orthodox churchmen in a campaign for public recognition. Most states now recognize Orthodoxy as a "major faith," and Athenagoras' successors as Archbishop of the Americas (see following story) have offered prayers at the inaugurations of four presidents...