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 | | The Church of Alexandria, founded according to the constant tradition of both East and West by St. Mark the Evangelist, was the centre from which Christianity spread throughout all Egypt, the nucleus of the powerful Patriarchate of Alexandria. | | | Their patriarch, a mere shadow of what he once was, resides at Stamboul, and glories in the title of ""Patriarch of Alexandria and Ecumenical Judge"". | | | Under Dioscurus (444-451), the unworthy successor of St. Cyril, the Church of Alexandria became embroiled in the Monophysite heresy. |
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| | Church of Alexandria - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The Church of Alexandria is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Churches. | | | Its primate is the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, the successor to the Apostle Mark the Evangelist, who founded the Church of Alexandria in the 1st century. | | | The current primate of the Church of Alexandria is His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Alexandria
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| | World Affairs Board - Patriarch of Alexandria killed in air crash |
| | Patriarch Petros was often described as an energetic architect of his faith's revival in Africa. | | | Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was heading north from Athens when contact was lost. | | | The Patriarch, 55 - one of the most senior figures in the Greek Orthodox Church - was on a visit to Greece from Egypt accompanied by Orthodox priests and laymen from the Alexandria area. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Greek Orthodox leader dies in crash |
| | Alexandria's patriarch is considered to be Saint Mark's successor and heads the Orthodox Church in Africa, ministering to 100,000 Africans and 150,000 mainly ethnic Greeks. | | | ATHENS -- Egypt's Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, was killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities said yesterday. | | | "We are devastated from this tragic accident where the Patriarch of Alexandria, venerable clerics, his staff, and the crew lost their lives," said Church of Greece leader Archbishop Christodoulos. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/12/greek_orthodox_leader_dies_in_crash
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| | ERPKIM Archive Memory eternal to Patriarch of Alexandria, September 12, 2004 |
| | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria is autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox patriarchate, second in honorific rank after the Church of Constantinople; its patriarch is considered the successor of St. Mark the Evangelist and heads the Orthodox Church in Africa. | | | Patriarch Petros of Alexandria of blessed memory was a distinguished patriarch who during his tenure moved forward the work of the total revitalization of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, both in Egypt and in the rest of Africa. | | | August 1983, at the venerable request of the Patriarch of Alexandria His Beatitude Nicolaos, he was consecrated a bishop by the Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, together with H.E. Pavlos of Johannesburg, H.E. Timotheos of Central Africa and H.E. Chrysostomos of Kition, in the Holy Monastery of Macheras in Cyprus. |
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| | Nestorian Theology |
| | Alexandria understand him to mean that the second person of the Trinity was actually two persons: the man Jesus who was born, suffered and died and the divine Logos, eternal and unbegotten. | | | Whereas the Syriac Fathers were willing to leave the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in the realm of mystery, the Alexandrians sought a clear-cut doctrine that would guard the church against heresy. | | | There was a history of animosity between the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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| | Shortly after he became a Patriarch he received a letter from St. Akakios, Patriarch of Constantinople, confessing in it the one nature of Christ according to the faith of Saints Cyril and Dioscorus. | | | At the beginning of his patriarchal service he ordered an accounting of all the poor and downtrodden in Alexandria that turned out to be over seven thousand men. | | | The holy Patriarch John gave over a large portion of the church treasury for their ransom. |
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| | Pope and Patriarch Theodoros is the 130th Patriarch in the line of succession from St Mark the Evangelist, who established the Christian Church in Alexandria in AD 42, and is the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. | | | In 1985 he became Exarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Odessa, and in 1990 was elected Bishop of Cyrene. | | | The Grace of God indicated My Humility as continuer of the spiritual effort of the Alexandrian Church, as successor to holy Patriarchs, confessors of the faith. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Patriarch Petros: Architect of revival |
| | Patriarch Petros was the head of a church which traces its origins back to St Mark, the author of one of the four Christian gospels which tell of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. | | | In the early days of the church, the Bishops of Alexandria were second in influence and power only to Rome, but the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the 4th Century and subsequent attempts to more closely define the teachings of the Church led to division and schism. | | | In recent decades the Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria has been at the forefront of the Orthodox Church's modest missionary efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| | Upon the invitation of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle and the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox church, His Beatitude Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria and all Africa visited the Serbian Orthodox Church. | | | At the request of then Patriarch of Alexandria, he was consecrated a bishop by His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus on August 15, 1983 in the monastery of Macheras in Cyprus. | | | He was elected Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa on February 21 and his enthronement ceremony on the ancient Holy See of Alexandria took place on March 9, 1997. |
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| | ST ALEXANDER |
| | Alexander, after this triumph of the faith, returned to Alexandria; where, after having recommended St. Athanasius for his successor, he died in 326, on the 26th of February, on which day he is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology. | | | Giving way to spite and envy on seeing St. Alexander preferred before him to the see of Alexandria,[1] he became his mortal enemy: and as the saint's life and conduct were irreproachable, all his endeavours to oppose him were levelled at his doctrine, in opposition to which the heresiarch denied the divinity of Christ. | | | Arius, a priest of Alexandria, was his principal instrument for that purpose. |
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| | Christian News, Updated Daily - Christian Today > Pope Petros VII, Patriarch of Alexandria Dies |
| | Within the Greek Orthodox ranks, the Petros VII - patriarch of Alexandria - was considered second in rank only to the ecumenical patriarch in Istanbul, and was largely known as the architect of modern-day Greek Orthodoxy in Africa. | | | During the time he took the post as the 115th patriarch and pope of Alexandria and all Africa in 1997, the Greek Orthodox church was struggling to find priests and other staff members to take up missionary work in Africa. | | | On Sept 11, 2004, one of the vanguards of the Christian-Muslim ecumenical dialouge in the Greek Orthodox Church died alongside 16 others in a fatal helicopter crash in the northern Aegean Sea. |
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| | Helicopter crash kills top cleric |
| | Patriarch Petros was the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria. | | | Patriarch Petros of Alexandria, the head of the 300,000 Christian Orthodox congregation in Africa, was on the flight with 11 other church officials and five crew members, Lt. Gen. | | | The Patriarch of Alexandria is on the same level as the Pope. |
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| | The Byzantine Forum: Greek cleric feared dead in crash |
| | Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians in Africa, was confirmed as one of seven bodies retrieved so far. | | | Patriarch Petros of Alexandria - the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa - was among some 16 people on board. | | | May God bless the Church and faithful of Alexandria and All Africa. |
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| | Wikinfo Alexandria |
| | In ancient times, Alexandria was known for its lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of the World) and its library (the largest in the world). | | | Much favored by the earlier viceroys of Mehemet Ali's house, and removed from the Mameluke troubles, Alexandria was the real capital of Egypt until Said Pasha died there in 1863 and Ismail Pasha came into power. | | | Shortly after its capture Alexandria again fell into the hands of the Greeks, who took advantage of Amr's absence with the greater portion of his army. |
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| | St Athanasius |
| | In 369, the holy patriarch convened a council of ninety bishops, in whose name he wrote to the bishops of Africa to beware of any surprise from those who were for preferring the decrees of the Council of Rimini to those of Nice. | | | The holy patriarch St. Peter had, at the intercession of the martyrs and confessors, dispensed with the rigour of the canons in behalf of certain persons who, through frailty, had fallen into idolatry during their persecution, and upon their repentance had received them again to communion. | | | Nevertheless, Lucifer of Cagliari and some other bishops pretended, by a Pharisaical pride, that the lapsed, notwithstanding their repentance, could no longer be admitted by the church to communion in the ranks of bishops or priests. |
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| | New Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria enthroned |
| | ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct 24 (AFP) - The Greek Orthodox Church's new Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Theordore II, was enthroned on Sunday in this coastal city in northern Egypt. | | | Greek President Costis Stefanopoulos attended the ceremony, which took place at the seat of Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, one of the branches of Eastern Orthodoxy. | | | He was chosen on October 9 by a college made up of the 13 metropolitans of the Holy synod of the patriarchy of Alexandria. |
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| | The Great Library of Alexandria |
| | There is also evidence that the original temple was destroyed or badly damaged by fire as Clement of Alexandria taunts pagans about the various disasters to afflict their places of worship including a blaze at the Serapeum[58] while Syncellus says a fire occurred in AD172 under the Emperor Commodus[59]. | | | However, he goes on to say that there was no other library in Alexandria at the time of Caesar’s visit and that later libraries (including, one presumes, the Serapeum library) were set up in an attempt to emulate the wisdom of the ancients[68]. | | | Alexandria Rediscovered by Jean-Yves Empereur, Cosmos by Carl Sagan and From the Holy Mountain by William Dalyrymple are just three recent books to combine this myth with the earlier loss of the Royal Library while even scholars such as Luciano Canfora and Alfred Butler have tried to interpret the evidence to support Gibbon. |
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| | Search Results for Monophysite - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | patriarch of Alexandria and Eastern prelate whose subscription to the unorthodox beliefs of the Monophysites caused him to be deposed and excommunicated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451. | | | patriarch of Alexandria (535–566), theologian, and leader of the Monophysites in Egypt and Syria, who were reputed for their asceticism and also for their mystical prayer. | | | Greek Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople (reigned 535–536), the last notable Byzantine churchman explicitly to advocate Monophysitism (see Monophysite). |
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| | Telegraph News Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria |
| | Though the Patriarchs are regarded as the leaders of the Orthodox Church, their pre-eminence is more a matter of organisation than of authority, as all its bishops are considered to have equal rights and powers. | | | His Beatitude Petros VII, who died in a helicopter accident on Saturday aged 55, was the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, namely the head of the Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church in Africa; by tradition, he was the 128th successor in that office to St Mark the Evangelist. | | | Now the patriarchate fragmented still further as the vast majority of its congregation, mainly indigenous Egyptians, refused to accept the decision at Chalcedon and split to become the Coptic Orthodox Church, with their own Pope. |
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| | iafrica.com news world news Africa's Greek spiritual leader killed |
| | The Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII, one of the most senior figures in the Greek Orthodox Church, was killed on Saturday along with 16 others in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea, church and government officials said. | | | The patriarch, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was heading to the Mount Athos monastery in northern Greece, one of the holiest sites in Orthodox Christianity, in an army helicopter when the aircraft disappeared from radar screens. | | | The Greek government confirmed the death of the 55-year-old patriarch, who was the second most senior figure in the Greek Orthodox Church. |
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| | His Beatitude Petros VII |
| | This Patriarch addressed a letter to Patriarch Philaretos and the Czar Michael, offering special ecclesiastical rights, which were given to the Patriarch of the Russian Church, rights which only the Apostolic Throne of Alexandria had, and holy relics were given to the Czar. | | | Today, in the joy of the Resurrection, the Holy Spirit has gathered us to experience the godly mystery of the Church, the life of the Resurrected Christ, and it brought us in the yard of this Temple, which is full of the glory of God. | | | The offering of this Holy Temple, whose sacred history begins in the year 1380, when it was built by St. Demetrios Ntanskoy, and our presence celebrating the inauguration and the divine sacrifice, without the shedding of blood, witness the close relationship of the two Churches, a relationship of love throughout the history of both Churches. |
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| | The Patriarch of Alexandria was travelling to Mt. Athos in response to an official invitation extended by the Vatopedio Monastery on Mt. Athos to participate in the officiating of a major religious celebration. | | | This would be the Patriarch’s first time on Mt. Athos -- also known as Holy Mountain - an autonomous monastic community on the easternmost promontory of the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. | | | Archbishop of Athens Christodoulos said he was shaken by the death of "one of the most significant clerics of Orthodoxy". |
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| | History of the Diocese of Baliana |
| | Anba Wissa, Bishop of Baliana: Pope Shenouda the 3rd, the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria, ordained him Bishop of Baliana, Bardies, and Awlad Touq Sharq on Sunday June 22nd, 1975. | | | During the time of Pope Keyrollos the 2nd, the 67th Patriarch of Alexandria, Anba Morcous was part of the Synod Council in the year 802 M / 1085 AD. | | | The following is documented in the 2nd book of the History of the Coptic Patriarchs (Published in 1959), chapter 3, pages 172, 208, 215, and 229: Pope Akhristozolos, the 66th Patriarch of Alexandria, was ordained Patriarch on December 1045 AD. |
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| | Saint Theophilus of Alexandria -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | theologian and patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, violent opponent of non-Christian religions, severe critic of heterodox influence among Christian writers and monks, and a major figure in the ecclesiastical politics of the Greek Orthodox Church of his day. | | | Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa | | | The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt was considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. |
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| | The Christian Post |
| | As the 116th Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodore II, will be the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Greek Orthodox in Africa. | | | Although his church followers are few in number on the continent, it is one of the world's oldest Christian congregations, considered second in the ancient ranking of the Orthodox churches and able to trace its roots to the apostle Mark. | | | Around 2,000 Orthodox worshippers gathered for a three-hour-long ceremony for the Greek Orthodox Church’s new Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa. |
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| | Lives of the Saints, February 9, Saint Cyril of Alexandria, St. Apollonia |
| | In 430 Cyril became embroiled with Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople, who was preaching that Mary was not the Mother of God since Christ was divine and not human, and consequently She should not have the word Theotokos (God-bearer) applied to Her. | | | Born at Alexandria, Egypt, and nephew of the patriach of that city, Theophilus, Cyril received a classical and theological education at Alexandria and was ordained by his uncle. | | | The Christians could not suppose that he had been deprived of the martyr’s crown, unless to receive it afterwards more gloriously. |
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| | eHistory.com: The Burning of the Library of Alexandria |
| | Theophilus was Patriarch of Alexandria from 385 to 412 AD. | | | Orestes was said to be under the influence of Hypatia, a female philosopher and daughter of the "last member of the Library of Alexandria". | | | Immediately after the death of Hierax a group of Jews who had helped instigate his killing lured more Christians into the street at night by proclaiming that the Church was on fire. |
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| | Cyril was of noble birth and a close relative of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, after whose death he was consecrated as patriarch. | | | They took pride in their virtues, walked about dressed in white garments, forbade a second marriage, held that prayers should not be said for those who committed a mortal sin, nor to receive back into the Church those who, at one time, had fallen away from the Church even though they bitterly repented. | | | Cyril defeated them and drove them out of Alexandria together with their bishop. |
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| | ORIENTALIS ECCLESIAE |
| | Throughout the troubled times of his life on earth the Patriarch of Alexandria taught all men, both by word and by conspicuous example, how this true harmony is to be achieved and steadfastly maintained -- and We would have him do this also today. | | | With the utmost readiness the Patriarch, while not withdrawing or repudiating these writings -- for the doctrine they contained was orthodox -- nevertheless wrote several letters to explain his meaning and remove any possibility of misunderstanding, and so clear the way to peace and harmony. | | | It was with the consolation which he derived from these words of Our Predecessor that the Prelate of Alexandria, this invincible champion of the orthodox faith, this most earnest promoter of Christian unity, passed to his rest in the peace of Christ. |
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| | St. Pachomius Library |
| | After becoming Patriarch of Alexandria in 385, he ordered the destruction of pagan temples in North Africa and used the stones to build churches. | | | Origen until questioned by a group of monks about the immateriality of God. | | | Some scholars believe that Theophilus wrote On the Vision of Isaiah, which had been previously attributed to Jerome He appears frequently in stories about the Desert Fathers, and ordained St. Moses the Black. |
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| | Greek Orthodox Church holds memorial for Patriarch Petros of Alexandria |
| | The following year, he served as deacon in the patriarchate of Alexandria and as a priest in Johannesburg, South Africa. | | | The Orthodox Church of Greece held a memorial service Wednesday for Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria -- the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Greek Orthodox in Africa -- who was killed in a helicopter crash over the weekend. | | | Although his church has a tiny following on the continent, it is one of the world's oldest Christian congregations, considered second in the ancient ranking of the Orthodox churches and able to trace its roots to the apostle St. Mark. |
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| | St. Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church 296-373 A.D. |
| | Deacon and secretary to bishop Alexander of Alexandria. | | | Born of a Christian family in Alexandria, Egypt, and given a classical education, Athanasius entered the priesthood, became secretary to Alexander, the bishop of Alexandria, and eventually was named bishop himself. | | | Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church 296-373 A.D. Free Republic |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theophilus |
| | At the Synod of the Oak in 403 Theophilus concluded an equitable peace with the persecuted monks, and on his return to Alexandria is said to have again received the books of Origen (Socrates, VI, 17). | | | About 390 Theophilus deprived the pagans of Alexandria of a temple, probably with the consent of the Emperor Theodosius I, and apparently destroyed several other temples (Socrates, V, 16; Ammian., XXII, xi, 7). | | | Isidore found protection with his friends, the monks of Nitria, whereupon Theophilus turned against them also. |
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| | NPNF213. Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat (ii.vi.viii) |
| | The Agnoetæ or Themistiani arose in connexion with the Monophysite controversy in the sixth century, being led by Themistius, a deacon of Alexandria, who taught the limitation of the human knowledge of Christ, referring especially to Mark xiii. | | | 34. The majority of the Monophysites rejected his view, which was condemned also by the orthodox. Eulogius of Alexandria, to whom the letter before us is addressed, wrote a treatise against the Agnoetæ, from which extracts are given by Photius. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, pronounced the anathema against Themistius. On the same subject, cf. |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Hypatia of Alexandria (355-415) |
| | Some authors have used Hypatia's death as a symbol of the repression of reasoned paganism by irrational religion. | | | In 391, Emperor Theodosius had published an edict which prohibited visiting pagan temples, and Christians in the entire Roman Empire had embarked on an intense campaign to destroy pagan places of worship. | | | 415) was a neo-Platonic philosppher mathematician, and teacher who lived in Alexandria, then a Greek settlement. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Alexander (of Alexandria) |
| | Patriarch of Alexandria, date of birth uncertain; died 17 April, 326. | | | He was reinstated by Achillas, the successor of Peter and then began to scheme to be made a bishop. | | | Arius had begun to teach his heresies in 300 when Peter, by whom he was excommunicated, was Patriarch. |
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| | patriarch on Encyclopedia.com |
| | There were originally three patriarchates: the West, held by the bishop of Rome (the pope; see papacy), Alexandria, and Antioch. | | | In the Russian Orthodox Church the czar set up (1580) a patriarch of Moscow; the title was abolished (1721) by Peter the Great and revived in 1917 (see Orthodox Eastern Church). | | | The Orthodox archbishops of Belgrade and of Bucharest are called patriarchs. |
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| | news1997_3_11 |
| | President of the Republic Glafcos Clerides paid a one-day visit to Egypt, on Sunday 9.3.97, to attend the enthronement ceremony of the new Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and Africa, Petros VII, who is a Greek Cypriot. | | | It ends by urging the MPs to "do everything possible to end the inhuman situation which has continued for 23 years now.". |
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| | ELECTION OF THE NEW PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA |
| | Two hierarchs are favorites for the position of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, while the 27 Metropolites and bishops who make up the electoral assembly have already begun arriving in Alexandria, Egypt. | | | The first vote will provide the final three candidates and then the hierarchs, in a second vote, will elect the successor of Patriarch Petros, who was among the 17 people killed last month in a Chinook crash on their way to the Monastic Community of Mount Athos in Chalkidiki northern Greece. | | | Regarding the procedure to be followed for the election of the new Patriarch, two votes will take place tomorrow morning. |
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| | ekathimerini.com New patriarch in Alexandria |
| | The Cretan-born Bishop of Zimbabwe was elected on Saturday as head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa, replacing Patriarch Petros, who was killed in a September 11 helicopter accident in northern Greece. | | | Theodoros, 50, secured the highest number of ballots in the first round of voting, in which he ran against the bishops of Axum and Leontopolis. | | | The 115th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros II — born Theodoros Horeftakis — won the unanimous backing of the 13 members of the Patriarchate’s Holy Synod in the second round of voting in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria, which was a major center of Greeks of the diaspora until the mid-1950s. |
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 98021055 |
| | It is often assumed that early Christian asceticism drew its followers completely away from worldly concerns into the realm of pure spirituality. | | | But the life and thought of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (AD 328-73), shows just how worldly -- and deeply political -- ascetic theology could be. | | | This illuminating study of the turmoil of fourth century Christianity also includes the first English translations of many of Athanasius's ascetic and pastoral writings. |
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| | Greece declares three days of national mourning for death of patriarch of Alexandria |
| | Greece declared three days of national mourning Monday for the Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, who died in a helicopter crash. | | | Roman Catholics, Protestants and Coptic Christians on the continent follow other clerical leaders. | | | Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, Egypt, and 16 others were killed Saturday when a helicopter taking them to the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece crashed into the sea. |
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| | THE PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA IN THESSALONIKI |
| | Patriarch Petros of Alexandria and All of Africa will be in Thessaloniki in the next few days to attend the scientific symposium on “Christian Macedonia. | | | The goal of the conference is to promote the historical and cultural profile of the two cities, while presenting personalities who strengthened the ties between the cities of Alexandria and Thessaloniki through the Patriarchate of Alexandria. | | | During his seven-day visit to Greece, the Patriarch of Alexandria will also attend the celebrations held by the Association of Greeks from Egypt on the occasion of the anniversary of its establishment. |
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http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=412020
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| | Helicopter Carrying Orthodox Patriarch Of Alexandria Disappears: Authorities |
| | Helicopter Carrying Orthodox Patriarch Of Alexandria Disappears: Authorities | | | Apart from the patriarch, 16 other people were on board the craft that disappeared, five of them crew members, Greek television reported. | | | Peter VII, who was born in Cyprus, has been patriarch since March 1997. |
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http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26861
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