Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark, a seven-year-old boy approached an envelope lying on the altar. Amid prayers, he opened the envelope and drew from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate for the office of "Most Holy Father and Patriarch of the great city of Alexandria and of all Egypt . . . and of all the places where St. Mark preached." The choice: Mina al Baramoussi, born Azer Yousef Atta, sometime clerk at Thomas Cook's travel bureau and a renowned priest known to his followers as "The Solitary...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...
This week, after 56 years, Venice finally saw its patriarch again. At that 1903 conclave, to his surprise, Giuseppe Sarto was himself elected Pope, and in 1954, 40 years after his death, he became what would have surprised him still more-a saint ("I'm no santo, I'm Sarto," he once quipped), enshrined in the Vatican. Now the Pope's body was returning through the thoughtfulness of another ex-Patriarch of Venice, Pope John XXIII, who decided to keep St. Pius X's promise...
Nothing seemed more logical than to give the American post to Archbishop James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria...
Gertrude's years began in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, February, 1874. The Steins, a prosperous middle-class couple of German-Jewish descent, planned to have five children. If two babies had not died at birth, Gertrude and her brother Leo might never have been born. From patriarch Daniel, Gertrude inherited an intense philosophical streak, a habit of starting what did not get finished, and the love of a good fight. The mother, whom Gertrude called "little" and "sweet" kept a diary reminiscent of her daughter's long-winded and oversimplified writing...