Ecumenical patriarchates, 1921-1986.

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Ecumenical patriarchates, 1921-1986.

Correspondence with the patriarchs Athenagoras and Demetrios. Such churches as those in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the Russian churches are represented by material. Also, material about various controversial issues within the Greek Orthodox Church such as mixed-faith marriages, use of English and Greek languages, cremation, and intercommunion with other faiths. Other papers are concerned with the meeting of the World Council of Churches attended by Archbishop Iakovos and the meeting in Jerusalem with Pope Paul VI in 1964 referring to the Anathemas Life in which excommunication was lifted between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholics.

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Athēnagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1886-1972

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America

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Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978

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Pope Paul VI was born Giovanni Battista Montini on Sept. 26, 1897 in Concesio, Italy. He entered seminary in 1916 and was named archbishop of Milan in 1955. He was named Pope in 1963. Pope Paul VI died on Aug. 6, 1978 while visiting summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, after a heart attack....

Dēmētrios, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

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Iakovos, Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America

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World Council of Churches

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