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...Patriarch Paul Meouchi, 64, was made head of the Maronites, Lebanon's largest religious group, by Pope Pius in 1955. Genial, spade-bearded, Meouchi was pastor for 14 years in New Bedford, Mass., and in Los Angeles, and proudly recalls that as a U.S. citizen at the time, "I voted for Roosevelt in 1932." Believing that the church cannot survive if it clashes with dynamic Arab nationalism, Meouchi says: "Either we live with the Moslem Arabs in brotherhood, love and peace or else we must depart and vanish." To win back Lebanon's place as "mediator" between...
...cardinals moved into a strategic Vatican post last week. The post: proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the job in which Chicago's late Cardinal Stritch never had a chance to serve (TIME, June 9). The cardinal: Russian-born Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, the church's top expert on Russian affairs, and often mentioned as a future Pope...
...More Stovepipe. In 1937 he became patriarch of the 120,000 Armenian Roman Catholics scattered throughout the Middle East. As patriarch he took the name Gregory Peter XV. Nine years later Pope Pius XII gave him a red hat, and as cardinal he continued administering the affairs of the Armenians, shuttling between Rome and his residence in Beirut...
...quiet, witty Cardinal Agagianian will give up his patriarchate and replace the brimless stovepipe headgear of a patriarch with a simple biretta. But with his special experience in Russian affairs and in the intricate network of relationships in the Communist-infiltrated Middle East, his new position at the helm of the Roman Catholic missionary movement makes him one of the most potent and important men in the Vatican. Last week the Pope conferred a further honor on Cardinal Agagianian-naming him to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, most important of the Holy See's twelve administrative...
Died. Alexander III, 89, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, longtime (since 1931) head of the Greek Orthodox community in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and part of Turkey, spiritual leader of thousands who have migrated from the Middle East to the U.S. and Latin America; in Damascus...