John Vlahos, a Greek Orthodox priest, performed the ceremony; Father Dennis Strouzas, also a Greek Orthodox priest, assisted.
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Damaskinos Ganas, a Greek Orthodox priest, is to perform the ceremony at the Kimisis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church in Brooklyn.
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Dr. Athanasios L. Demos, a Greek Orthodox priest, at St. Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church, of which he is the pastor.
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Nicholas Anctil, a Greek Orthodox priest, is to lead a religious ceremony at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in New Rochelle, N.Y. Mrs.
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"It's a bit of a Greek Orthodox look," Murray said.
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Alexander Karloutsos, another Greek Orthodox priest, leading the ceremony. Mrs.
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The event where the two met was a reception held to celebrate Priebus's wife's baptism in the Greek Orthodox Church, according to Stavros Papagermanos, a press officer for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
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Premier Ballroom, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 276 Park Avenue.
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Gregory Christakos performed the ceremony at the Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church.
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Alexander Karloutsos, another Greek Orthodox priest, among those taking part. Mrs.
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The Greek Orthodox authorities were not available to comment on Tuesday.
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Wilson is Greek through her mother and was raised Greek Orthodox.
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A Greek Orthodox choir sang inside a room facing the baroque structure.
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After the war, the property was sold to the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Premier Ballroom, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 4070 Park Avenue. premierballroomdance.
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Also, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America falls under Constantinople's direct jurisdiction.
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James W. Kordaris performed the ceremony at St. George Greek Orthodox Church.
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Greek Orthodox guerrillas held out in the Black Sea hinterland with tenacity.
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For centuries, different rules applied to Muslims, Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Jews.
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After St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan was destroyed on Sept.
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Fun fact: Jason is Greek Orthodox and goes to church every Sunday evening.
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It includes the Australian Christian Lobby and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
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The Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Church, thinks differently.
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A bunker in Lin that has been converted into a Greek Orthodox shrine.
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The powerful Greek Orthodox Church also opposes allowing the neighbor rights to the word.
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Upstairs in a different room, dozens of Greek Orthodox worshipers receive the holy sacrament.
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John S. Bakas at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia in Los Angeles. Mrs.
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Michael J. Lambakis performed the ceremony at St. Basil the Great Greek Orthodox Church. Mrs.
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Andrew A. Maginas, a Greek Orthodox priest, officiated at the Everglades Club, with the Rev.
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The couple met in September 2006 while volunteering at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church festival.
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Gary Kyriacou performed the ceremony at St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mrs.
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Archimandrite Dr. Nathanael Symeonides, a Greek Orthodox priest, at SS. Constantine & Helen Cathedral in Brooklyn. Mrs.
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Sietsema is a Greek Orthodox priest from Michigan, as well as a former linguistics professor and lexicographer.
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Later, she established a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns modeled after that of Grand Duchess Elizabeth.
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Instead, she drove to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Portland, Oregon, where her husband, the Rev.
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On February 25th, however, the main occupants—the Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Armenians—showed rare ecumenical unity.
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In Markham, mourners gathered at a Greek Orthodox church to honor 10-year-old victim Julianna Kozis.
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Iskander Assad, a Greek Orthodox priest, lives in Maidan, a frontline neighborhood that is now half-deserted.
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In 2008, for example, Israeli riot police broke up a melee between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks.
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Although she is an avowed secularist, her father's Greek Orthodox religion is listed on her identity card.
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Archbishop Ieronymos, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, visited to bless the soldiers patrolling the border.
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Along with the Palestinian leadership, Odeh was scheduled to attend three Masses: Greek Orthodox, Anglican, and Catholic.
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Daoud Hanania was born in West Jerusalem in 21948, the grandchild of an Arab Greek Orthodox priest.
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Sixteen years after the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed in the terror attacks of Sept.
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Christ Kontos performed the ceremony at St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church, where he is the presiding priest.
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In practice this means celebrating both the glories of ancient Greece and the subtleties of Greek Orthodox teaching.
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"Clean Monday" celebrations mark the end of carnival season and the beginning of the Greek Orthodox Lent fast.
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Right-wing politicians and representatives of the Greek Orthodox clergy joined them in a sea of Greek flags.
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"It's so hard," one reader wrote me of her Greek Orthodox Holy Week — no meat, dairy or oil.
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Gaza has around 1,000 Christians, most of them from the Greek Orthodox denomination who celebrate Christmas on Jan.
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At one point, a small van pulled up and a Greek Orthodox priest alighted in long black flowing robes.
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It was from these conversations that I decided I wanted to be a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Display of Systems continues at the Sursock Museum (Greek Orthodox Archbishopric Street, Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon) through February 11, 2019.
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More bewildering still may have been the presence among the demonstrators of so many black-robed Greek Orthodox clergy.
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According to the Greek Orthodox Diocese of America, the apostles are said to have performed 3,000 baptisms that day.
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Peter Zougras, a Greek Orthodox priest, performed the ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly.
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The building, once a mosque, was converted to a Greek Orthodox Church in the 1920s, and its minaret dismantled.
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The vice president will meet with Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America at 3:15 p.m.
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The former head administrator of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has been arrested and charged with embezzling funds.
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It has been condemned as "immoral" by the Greek Orthodox Church and as a "monstrosity" by right-wing politicians.
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"My message is about my religion," said the grey-bearded 57-year-old, a member of the Greek Orthodox community.
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Pitsiladis, who is Greek Orthodox, gave him a painting of St. Raphael, who was martyred on the Greek island Lesbos.
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Khoury's late father was a Greek Orthodox Palestinian who immigrated to Lebanon, founded CCC, and then moved it to Greece.
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"We saw where Jesus Christ was laid down," Father Isidoros Fakitsas, the superior of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, told me.
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He converted from Judaism to the Greek Orthodox Church later in life, and turned viciously on his former co-religionists.
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Officials arrested a Greek Orthodox priest for performing Mass despite a nationwide moratorium on religious gatherings amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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When the royal family went into exile in 1922, she converted to the Greek Orthodox Church and become deeply religious.
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Karen Kurian Alunkal and David Evan Baumwoll were married July 15 at the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Danbury, Conn.
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Hundreds of faithful filled the side aisles and galleries above, including many from the dwindling Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul.
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He was Greek Orthodox so I don't think he went for religious reasons, probably for the carol service and the traditions.
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" Father Stelios Sitaras of Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Galveston, Texas, described Pagourtzis as a "quiet boy.
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Indeed, few segments of society have been so resistant to the possibility of making a bargain as the Greek Orthodox clergy.
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The venue: the Greek Orthodox chapel on Skorpios, a private and secure island in the Ionian Sea owned by the groom.
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But they are less confident about the fate of the Greek Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire from 1919 to 1922.
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Another worthy architectural wonder to visit, if you happen to have transportation, is the Annunciation Greek Orthodox church in nearby Wauwatosa.
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In the early 1950s, the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church signed three 99-year leases with the Jewish National Fund.
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However, work was suspended in December on replacing a Greek Orthodox church crushed in the attacks; the project hit financial problems.
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On July 22, the couple is to take part in a Greek Orthodox ceremony to be led by the Very Rev.
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As the clinician Artemis Simopoulos pointed out to me, two meatless days a week are the norm in Greek Orthodox communities.
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It has enabled us to protect Orthodox Jews in New York, Muslims in Minnesota, Greek Orthodox Christians in Wisconsin, and many others.
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Andreadis called for the conclusion of the review by the end of April, before the Greek Orthodox Easter, a key tourism season.
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The Greek Orthodox patriarch in Jerusalem was fired after his church sold property to Jewish settler groups, which then evicted Palestinian tenants.
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The member schools, which represent traditions from Jewish to Catholic, from Greek Orthodox to Roman Catholic, share teaching, libraries and other resources.
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It was this bizarre chapter in history, where in the USSR they didn't celebrate Greek Orthodox Christmas, but they celebrated New Year's.
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For the first thousand years of the church, married men could become priests, as they still can in the Greek Orthodox faith.
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Though most of Gaza's 2 million population are Muslim, around 1,000 are Christian, mostly Greek Orthodox, who celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7.
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Gaza has only around 1,000 Christians - most of them Greek Orthodox - among a population of 2 million in the narrow coastal strip.
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Nor did the conquest spell instant doom for the city's Greek Orthodox authorities, who initially at least kept many of their finest churches.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, would also be present, the official said.
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They belong to one of 14 nationally centered churches — such as the Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox Church — in communion with one another.
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The 1992 rally was backed by the Greek Orthodox Church, which distanced itself from Sunday's demonstration, notwithstanding the presence of some radical clerics.
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The mosque project has not been opposed by the general public, with objections expressed chiefly by right-wing groups and Greek Orthodox clerics.
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Compounding the surprise of seeing so many Russians was trying to discern who was Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox (Antioch rite) or Russian Orthodox.
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He played on the Santa Fe High School junior varsity football team and was a member of his local Greek Orthodox church's dance squad.
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Greek Orthodox swimmer Nicolaos Solis takes part in the Epiphany Day celebrations at the Church of Fener Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul on Jan. 6.
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The statement by the Greek Orthodox Church said a visit by the pope would be "of a few hours duration, purely humanitarian and symbolic".
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"I married my best friend," Ms. Sarkissian said after an hourlong traditional Greek Orthodox ceremony that included chanting, crowns and a priest in robes.
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The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, despite receiving $37 million in donations for the shrine, was unable to pay its bills, the company said.
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Archimandrite Ioustinos is a 77-year-old Greek Orthodox Priest living in the St. Photini Church in Nablus, a Palestinian city in the West Bank.
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Kristen Anastasia Lappas and Russell Andrew Dinallo Jr. were married April 28 at the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in North Wildwood, N.J. The Rev.
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Warnings that the shrine could fall prompted rivalrous Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities to share the cost of a $3.4 million renovation.
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Among the most arresting buildings are St. Nicholas Orthodox Church with its distinctive blue onion dome, and the salmon-colored Greek Orthodox Holy Cross Church.
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Her Greek Orthodox family threw her out of the house when she wouldn't call it quits, and the pair moved into a basement in Boston.
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He is a strategic advisor to the Gulf International Forum and the appointed representative of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the United States.
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Yeah, someone boarded the Hell Express and jacked a black Lincoln Navigator Wednesday night from outside a Greek Orthodox church in Pasadena ... according to cops.
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The artist's eccentric mix of ancestral roots (Levantine, Greek-Orthodox, Armenian, Arab, and Sephardi) is key to the aesthetic and conceptual framework of the exhibition.
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Before any flagellations, metaphorical or otherwise, take place at the Vatican, Pope Francis might consider a story from the recent history of the Greek Orthodox church.
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The Antiochian Orthodox Church, also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, counts as many as 1.1 million members in Syria and 400,000 in Lebanon.
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People admire the role of Greek Orthodox parishes (along with the country's tiny Catholic and Protestant minorities) in providing basic aid to newcomers and needy locals.
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For example, the estimated cost to reconstruct the nearly 200-year-old St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11, is $0003 million.
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At work, he read local newspapers and scratched lottery tickets, but his house had marble steps and gold-leaf Greek Orthodox icons in the living room.
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John Vlahos, performed the ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York, where he is the dean, with the Rev.
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In the introduction to the show's catalogue, the curators, Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb, tell of meeting with Theophilus, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem.
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A representative of the society said it was not involved in any alleged attempts to bribe senior Greek Orthodox clergymen, the Russian state Interfax news agency reported.
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A Jew born in Casablanca who is married to a Greek Orthodox woman of Syrian descent, he lives in Switzerland and has French, Portuguese, and Israeli citizenship.
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He played football for the school's junior varsity team and was a member of a dance squad with a local Greek Orthodox church, The Associated Press reported.
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After receiving a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian clergy said the church would reopen Wednesday morning.
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The Greek Orthodox Church has played a leading role in the life of the country for many centuries and is considered its official religion under the constitution.
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The protesters, many of whom wore their army uniforms on the site, a former navy facility, also set up a makeshift Greek Orthodox Church on the premises.
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After Matthew and Carly Lunn simulated fellatio outside the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Paul on Rhodes, a local bishop banned all foreign couples from marrying there.
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The project required the unlikely cooperation of the three religious communities that share the church (Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic), and cost about $3 million.
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Let's Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis continues at the Sursock Museum (Greek Orthodox Archbishopric Street, Ashrafieh, Beirut) through October 24.
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The message includes brief statements form the leaders of Cyprus&apos Greek Orthodox, Latin, Armenian and Maronite churches and the Mufti who heads the island&aposs Muslim community.
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The average age of his most visible representatives will plunge by nearly 40 years as younger clerics take over Greek-Orthodox sees in New York, London and Sydney.
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Only on April 7th did the ruling Synod of the Greek Orthodox church agree to the creation of a two-hectare Muslim cemetery in the southwest of Athens.
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The 4th century church is run by three separate religious groups—Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian Orthodox—which each manages its own interpretive experience within the site.
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This is near the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox National Shrine that was destroyed when the World Trade Center south tower collapsed on it during the 9/11 attacks.
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Then Lucero and her court scurried into the limo, heading for the party, a catered affair for 150 guests at a Greek Orthodox church hall in Bay Ridge.
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This piece grew out of the long collaborative friendship of Mr. Glass and Mr. Barnes, who is also the chanter for Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Lincoln, Neb.
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Peter Zougras, a Greek Orthodox priest, performed the ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Theologian, where the founder was the bride's maternal grandfather, the Rev.
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Cardinal Keeler was at the forefront of building interfaith bonds between his church and Jews, Muslims and the Greek Orthodox as well as Lutherans and other Protestant groups.
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A boutique, run by Greeks from the wave of guest workers in the '50s, offers white taffeta baby dresses and sugarcoated almonds, traditional symbols of Greek Orthodox baptisms.
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Rather than being alarmed, the artist's mother, a devout Greek Orthodox and artist herself, told her son that he was privy to the perennial struggle between angels and demons.
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If you're there during Greek Orthodox Easter, you'll experience the most important holiday in Greece, when festivities last for a whole week, with candlelit processions, lamb roasts, and fireworks.
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But representatives of the Greek Orthodox Church have launched a legal battle to return them to the Kosinitza Monastery, one of the oldest and most important Orthodox Christian sanctuaries.
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"This construction zone is extremely expensive, because of the high security, because of the high tolerances," said Jerry Dimitriou, executive director of administration for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
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While Qatar has officially denied Nusra ties, it has mediated the release of hostages held by the group including Americans, Greek Orthodox nuns and members of the Lebanese security forces.
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It's noteworthy that Mr. Samaras, who was born in Greece and came to the United States at 11, was raised Greek Orthodox, and a religious feeling persists in his work.
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After receiving a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian clergy announced on Tuesday the church would reopen the next morning.
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For something more elaborate, check out Wright's Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in nearby Wauwatosa, a circular spiritual spaceship whose large, blue dome mirrors the sky above when the weather cooperates.
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El Greco's "Saint Luke Painting the Virgin" (1560-66) and "Adoration of the Magi" (1560-1568), two icons in the show done in Greek Orthodox style, are both badly damaged.
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Pictures of a Greek festival affiliated with the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Galveston showed Dimitrios, the son of a Greek immigrant, dancing with other costumed performers.
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It came at a time when audiences had tired of atonal experimentalism, and Mr Isserlis's glowingly melodious account of Tavener's meditation on Greek Orthodox themes chimed happily with the popular mood.
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The charismatic leader of the S.S.N.P., a Greek Orthodox Christian named Antun Sa'ada, called for the revival of what he termed "Greater Syria," a territory comprising Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine.
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In seventeenth-century Venice, a Greek poem was published that celebrated the elopement of a Jewish heiress with a handsome Greek Orthodox baker who comes to her house to sell bread.
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The groom is also a trustee of the endowment fund that supports Greek Orthodox ministries in the United States, and the first vice president of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
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"For the first time in over two centuries, this sacred edicule has been restored," the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Theophilos III of Jerusalem, said Wednesday, when the shrine reopened to the public.
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Raised in New Jersey, Thalasinos had been a county health inspector in Cape May, and a member of a Greek Orthodox church in North Wildwood, before moving to California in 2002.
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The massive structure served as the center of the Greek Orthodox church for nearly a millennium before it was converted to a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453.
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The bargain was sealed on November 6th between the country's leftist and atheist (though not especially anti-religious) prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, and the head of the Greek Orthodox church, Archbishop Ieronymos.
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Tsipras aims to hire thousands of public-sector workers by 2020 as well as making constitutional reforms to separate the Greek Orthodox Church clearly from the state, important to left-wing voters.
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Samuel Aghoyan, the Armenian Patriarchate's representative at the Holy Sepulcher, who took to fisticuffs with a previous Greek Orthodox patriarch, Irineos I, inside the Aedicule on Holy Saturday, before Easter, in 2002.
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The 2020 Democratic candidate gave a speech at a charity fundraiser hosted by the Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons in Southampton on Saturday night, and Scaramucci was spotted in the crowd.
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Among them was Patrick J. Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which struggled with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America over the redevelopment plans.
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But only after pressure from the Israelis did the three religious communities that jealously share the church, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic, agree to a renovation that began last spring.
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The Greek Orthodox Australians celebrated the Holy Epiphany this weekend, and more than 3,000 people are expected to visit Frankston Waterfront, near Melbourne, on Saturday for the annual Blessing of the Waters.
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The Greek Orthodox Church is close to nationalist factions that opposed the agreement, and it appears that the expulsions may have been a response to Russian interests seeking to bolster that religious opposition.
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Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian church leaders said the holy site, a popular stop for pilgrims and where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried, would remain closed until further notice.
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But, moved by his family's Greek Orthodox and Palestinian roots, Khoury has a new vision for Bethlehem: Within 6483 years, he wants to see 3 million tourists a year thronging the narrow streets.
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After a failed restoration, another banishment, and the near-execution of her husband at the hands of Greek revolutionaries, Princess Alice converted to the Greek Orthodox church and began to experience religious hallucinations.
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During a speech, Biden thanked the Greek community and Greek Orthodox leaders for the support they offered his family after his son Beau died from cancer in 2015, according to the Huffington Post.
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The monastery is Greek Orthodox, and is not directly connected to the Egyptian Orthodox church, the denomination that has borne the brunt of a surge in Islamic State attacks targeting Christians since December.
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Priests in the powerful Greek Orthodox Church have been treated as civil servants in Greece and their salaries - estimated at about 200 million euros annually - have therefore been paid directly from the state budget.
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Father Stelios Sitaras of Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Galveston, Texas, said he met Pagourtzis when the young man danced with a group as part of an annual festival in October.
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TMZ has obtained video of 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis participating in a choreographed dance for his Greek Orthodox church the weekend before he allegedly shot and killed 8 of his peers and 2 teachers.
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I seized his candidness as an opportunity to bridge the Greek Orthodox community's troubled history, dating back to Ottoman rule and continuing throughout the formation of the Republic, with the demise of pork butchers in Istanbul.
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The 39-year-old widow of President Kennedy, two inches taller than her new husband, stood beside the 62-year-old multimillionaire during a 30-minute ceremony and gazed intently at the officiating Greek Orthodox prelate.
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The Greek Orthodox church is one of the biggest private landowners in the Holy Land and in recent years has stirred controversy both among Israelis and Palestinians by trying to sell prime assets to private investors.
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"I hope that we never see children washing up on the shores of the Aegean Sea," said Archbishop Ieronymos II, the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, who called for a greater response by the United Nations.
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The Greek Orthodox Church attempted to put a stop to the chatter on Monday: "This cannot be the cause of the spread of illness," the Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Church, said in a statement.
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The Greek Orthodox Church attempted to put a stop to the chatter on Monday: "This cannot be the cause of the spread of illness," the Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Church, said in a statement.
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Commentators on both sides expect no breakthrough agreements from the visit, but Mr. Tsipras's planned visit to a famed Greek Orthodox theological seminary, which the Turkish government forced to close in 1971, is making headlines at home.
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The princess, who became a Greek Orthodox nun and battled with mental-health problems, is honoured in Israel as a "righteous Gentile" because of the help she gave a Jewish family in Greece during the second world war.
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This task fell to Joudeh's ancestors as a way of maintaining a neutral guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, since the church is split between multiple Christian denominations, including Armenian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Franciscans, and more.
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In the church entryway is a gaudy gold mosaic on a wall, owned by members of the Greek Orthodox Church, that distracts from the nearby Stone of Unction, the marble slab covering the site where Jesus was anointed.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Christians on Saturday pummeled the car of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem during a visit to the occupied West Bank in protest against the church's decision to sell land to Jewish groups.
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It was broadly assumed Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and Archbishop Boulos Yazigi - respective heads of the Syriac and Greek Orthodox Churches in Aleppo – were captured by ISIS or al-Qaeda, both of whom have a vicious history of persecuting Christians.
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In Ottoman times, pilgrimage to the tomb and raising money for it were huge activities for the empire's Christians; this underpinned a cordial relationship between Greek Orthodox hierarchs who were the Sepulchre's main stewards and the city's Turkish overlords.
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As was noted by one clerical academic, when the Greek Orthodox church raises its voice, it is often in defence of its own interests or over national questions, like who has the historic right to use the name Macedonia.
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Mr. Atallah is a seasoned witness to the rivalries among the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities that jealously share — and sometimes spar over — what they consider Christianity's holiest site, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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"I was, and am, all for putting the 'Sphere' on Liberty Park, where it belongs," said Father Alexander Karloutsos, a protopresbyter, or archpriest, who has represented the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in its dealings with the Port Authority.
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The topping out of the shrine with the cross was a milestone in the tortuous effort to rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, a little parish outpost at 155 Cedar Street in Lower Manhattan that was destroyed on Sept.
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The Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Church, said in a statement it wanted the pontiff to visit Lesbos, the Aegean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have arrived in the past year.
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"People always ask me for recipes for special occasions, so I wrote this Little Book of Greek Orthodox Memorial Traditions," Astin says, showing me a pamphlet-sized guide with pictures I'm surprised to hear were taken on her phone.
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In recent years, he said, private promoters and companies have managed to buy land, or lease rights for an additional 200 years, from Christian bodies, particularly the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, leading to some uncertainty in the real estate market.
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The result has been a breach of trust among many of the 25 million parishioners of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, the archdiocese has itself acknowledged, as wealthy donors and humble parishioners alike wonder whether their donations were used appropriately.
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Kathimerini named the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society — an organization that promotes Russian ties to Christians in the Middle East — as being among certain groups trying to fan Russian influence in Greece, including in the Greek Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos.
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Greece recently expelled Russian diplomats, apparently in response to attempts to bribe local officials and Greek Orthodox Church leaders to derail an agreement that would settle a dispute between Greece and Macedonia over what the former Yugoslav republic should be called.
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Some Athenian Muslims are prepared to give this process a chance; others say they are pessimistic about obtaining many licences as long as the Greek Orthodox church retains a de facto veto on the allocation of space for religious purposes.
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The senior local Greek Orthodox Church official, Bishop Kyrillos, presided over the service at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church in Mati, a popular resort spot that was the place hardest-hit by the blaze that killed at least 86 people.
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It has been governed for centuries by three denominations whose defense of their "zones" in the church is legendary and has sometimes come to blows: the Franciscan order of Roman Catholics, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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Of all the things a regular watcher of The Crown might expect to see in Buckingham Palace, a chain-smoking Greek Orthodox nun with a history of institutionalization and a love of card games might be low on the list.
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This made it all the more charming to learn there are 360 churches on the island, many of them little chapels built by petitioners who had received the prosperity they had prayed for — a kind of Greek Orthodox ex voto.
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" Its Orthodox hymns are "the most inspiring and evocative religious music I know," and the country itself "a fusion of Roman Latinity and Greek Orthodox Christianity, so that ancient Rome and Greece live on, however vaguely and indirectly, inside the Romanian soul.
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In the footage, obtained by TMZ , Dimitrios Pagourtzis is seen wearing traditional Greek clothing while dancing with other members of a Greek Orthodox Church days before he allegedly killed 10 people and wounded 13 more in an attack at Santa Fe High School.
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The convictions arose from several incidents during the Second Intifada; the Israeli government accused Barghouti of authorizing and organizing the drive-by shooting of a Greek Orthodox monk and the shooting of multiple Israeli civilians at a seafood market in Tel Aviv.
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If my father, a Buenos Aires-born Argentine, didn't move to North Hollywood when he was 19 and go on a quest to find his religion, he wouldn't have ended up at the Greek Orthodox Church where he met my mother in 1970.
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In Russia's effort to sway the Greek vote, it allegedly paid protesters, tried to stoke nationalism on both sides of the border as well as influencing Greek Orthodox priests, and in a by-now familiar tactic, littered the internet with disinformation and propaganda.
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Another protest in support of Mr. Kavala had occurred the day before, at the ornate, high-profile opening of Arter, Istanbul's first major contemporary art museum, which was attended by both the Turkish culture minister and the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Arabic for "the Castle of the Jews," the name is said to be a reference to the castle-like appearance of a nearby Greek Orthodox monastery and to Jewish belief, which holds that this is where Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
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Check out the pics .... it was a traditional Bulgarian wedding that started at a Greek Orthodox Church followed by a reception with all the fun traditions -- including the groom showing up to the bride's house and paying her sister, mom and bridesmaids for his bride.
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When the novel was published in Athens in 1955, its conceit — that Jesus felt a temptation to climb down from the cross and live an earthly life with Mary Magdalene — was seen as a challenge to conservative Christianity, represented by the Greek Orthodox Church.
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The meal itself has a tether to Greek Orthodox Easter because, by chance, over the course of my lifetime, I have inadvertently built some intimate proximities to Greece, including a time in the 1980s when I lived and worked on a small island there.
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He's currently taking a full slate of classes at Community College of Allegheny County as a way to ease into life as a college student and plans to enroll next fall at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, according to his father, Peter Maillis, a Greek Orthodox priest.
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Kathimerini, citing senior diplomatic officials, reported that the expulsions are a response to attempts to bribe local officials in Greece and leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church and in response to attempts to derail an agreement that could expand NATO and EU membership in the Balkans.
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Cover image: U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Archbishop Demetrios of America, elder archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, not pictured, speaks during a Greek Independence Day celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
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In her study of a working-class Greek Orthodox community in the early 1970s, Renee Hirschon found that women had a deep theological understanding of the rituals they enacted, from mourning the dead to preparing festive meals for different occasions on the church calendar, culminating in Easter.
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He had come to Chios for the project's official blessing, and stood among more than a dozen business executives and scientists who listened as a bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priest sang hymns and prayed that the work done here would end suffering far and wide.
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"My parents always wanted me to meet someone I could happily spend my life with," said Mr. Orfanoudis, who, like Ms. Sarkissian, was raised Greek Orthodox; he cannot personally rebut the stereotype about traditional Greek families' obsession with seeing their children settle contentedly into marriage, he said.
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After a short ceremony punctuated by pauses so Ms. Stipkovits, who is currently on dialysis, could catch her breath and dab at relentless tears, Ms. Stipkovits and Mr. Garish joined their friends and families for a reception at the Cathedral Room at St, Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh.
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ATHENS — An effort by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece to start severing cozy ties between the state and the Greek Orthodox Church, including taking priests off civil service payrolls, has opened up divisions within the church, which has played a dominant role in the country's life for centuries.
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