Word: sidarouss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treason. Many appointments reflected Paul's special churchly concerns-most notably, union with Orthodoxy. Heading the list of new cardinals were three leaders of Oriental-rite churches that form a bridge between Rome and the East. Stephanos I Sidarouss is Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria. Lebanon's Paul Peter Meouchi is leader of the Maronite Christians. Maximos IV Saigh, Melchite Patriarch of Antioch, is a bearded churchly rebel who spoke French instead of Latin at the Vatican Council and three times previously refused a red hat on the grounds that "for a Patriarch to accept a cardinalate is treason...
...same time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...
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