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	Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Autonomous Church of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Autonomous Church of Greece
		The Patriarchate and the autonomous Church of Greece
		I believe that the church, or the archbishop, uses a flag which is red with a yellow cross and four golden firesteels (B like symbols) in the four quarters (the ones near the hoist are regular Bs the ones in the fly are inverted).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/rel-epco.html (1573 words)

	Church of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Supreme authority is vested in the synod of all the diocesan bishops, who all have metropolitical status (the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece) under the presidency of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
		The church is organised into 81 dioceses; 30 of these, in northern Greece and in the major islands in the north and northeast Aegean, are nominally under the jurisdiction of Constantinople which retains certain privileges over and in them- for example their bishops have to acknowledge the Patriarch as their own primate during prayers.
		The dioceses of Crete and the Dodecanese and the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos are under the direct jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and are not considered as part of the Church of Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Greece (531 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
		The real danger to the ideal of Greater Greece covering all the Balkans was not, is not now, the Turk, who remains always only an unpleasant incident in the history of these lands; it is the presence of other Christian races, Slavs, who dispute the Greek ideal with their languages and national feeling.
		Church", 285-286); but he has taken the trouble to learn Arabic and allows the Liturgy to be celebrated in Arabic to some extent; also he hates the Phanar and is unceasingly engaged in quarrels with his brother of Constantinople.
		Greece may be a long way behind France or England, in the same class of country; she is simply part of another world compared with Turkey.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06735a.htm (10864 words)

	The Modern Church
		The Church of Greece is divided into 66 small dioceses, with 7,765 parishes, more or less, whose vitality in the post-World War II period was notable in religious education, social consciousness, and theological scholarship.
		The concern of the Church is often extended to included donations for poor or orphaned girls; the distribution of funds to individuals released from prison; the distribution of food and clothing to poor families, schoolchildren, and individuals in want.
		The Greek-speaking Orthodox Churches of Constantinople (Istanbul), Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Greece, together with churches of other Orthodox jurisdictions, comprise the Orthodox Church, which was born as a result of the meeting between Jesus Christ, the eternal Logos, and the Greeks in the city of Jerusalem nearly two thousand years ago.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /info/facts/Religion3c.htm (6059 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Overview of Ecumenical Initiatives
		Differently from the other Orthodox Churches, the Church of Greece, though warmly invited, did not send observers to the Second Vatican Council, while her fraternal delegates did participate in the major ecumenical events of the Jubilee Year 2000 in Rome.
		In 1979 the Church of Greece subscribed to the constitution of the International Mixed Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches as a group.
		The Church of Greece did not send representatives to the plenary session at Balam in 1993 when the issue was discussed because it wanted to dissent from the orientation of the other Orthodox Churches.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3633 (1831 words)

	European Court "Canea" Decision Against Greece
		The Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary (Tis Panagias) in Canea is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic diocese of Crete.
		Quite apart from the difficulties of adapting a church to that kind of structure and the procedural problems which might arise in the event of litigation, such late compliance with the relevant rules of domestic law might be interpreted as an admission that countless acts of the applicant church in the past were not valid.
		Furthermore, the Church of Greece's personality in public law stemmed from the close and very old relations between it and the State, the overwhelming majority of whose citizens were of the Orthodox faith.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/Greece.htm (5110 words)

	Catholic Church of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Catholic Church in Greece is viewed by the State as a foreign denomination (ξένον δόγμα) and must cope with judiciary problems resulting from the existing legal deficiency on this point.
		In spite of the repeated efforts of the Catholic Hierarchy of Greece adressed to the government during the last 50 years, and the last decade in particular, the State does not seem willing to find a solution to the problems concerning the Catholic Church in Greece.
		The request of the Catholic Church in Greece is not for privileges or other special favours, but simply equal civil rights for Catholic Greek citizens, particularly civil servants, as is the case for Greeks living within the European Union, who are predominantly Greek Orthodox.
	www.cathecclesia.gr /gr/gen-engl.htm (561 words)

	Church of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Supreme authority is vested in the synod of all the bishops (the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece) under the presidency of the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
		The church is divided into 81 small dioceses; 20 of these, in northern Greece and in the islands, are nominally under the jurisdiction of Constantinople.
		The dioceses of Crete and the Dodecanese are under the direct jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and are not considered a part of the Autocephalous Church of Greece.
	www.lanceasanctum.com /greek.htm (273 words)

	Church of Greece - OrthodoxWiki
		The Church of Greece is one of the autocephalous churches of the Orthodox Christian communion whose territory consists of the southern part of Greece.
		The church is led by the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
		Eastern Christian Churches: The Orthodox Church of Greece by Ronald Roberson, a Roman Catholic priest and scholar
	orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Greece (101 words)

	The ‘Free Monks’ Phenomenon: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Greek Orthodoxy, an article by Lina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is on this particular point that the Church of Greece continues to justify its legitimacy in Greek society, insisting on its active participation in the construction of the modern Greek nation and on Helleno-Orthodoxy acting as an adhesive body holding together the national unity of Greece.
		Greece, through its membership in the European Union, is in a phase of late modernization, and thus in a time of great change in social, economic and political terms.
		Placing the Church under the Ministry of Education originated in the idea that the transmission of spiritual faith along with education was an essential foundation for the construction of the modern Greek State (Petrou 1992).
	hirr.hartsem.edu /sociology/sociology_online_articles_liederman.html (4731 words)

	Old Calendarists - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Afterwards, the former Primate of the Church of Greece, Germanos of Demetrias, retired in protest.
		In 1986, Auxentios was removed from the Archdiocese of Athens and the leadership of the Old Calendar Church of Greece by a majority the Florinite bishops on account of a series of controversial episcopal ordinations conducted in the early 1980s with his apparent censent.
		These churches refrain from both concelebration and communion with the mainstream Orthodox churches, regarding the hierarchies of the official churches to have apostasized and placed themselves outside Orthodoxy.
	orthodoxwiki.org /True_Orthodox_Church (3561 words)

	The True Orthodox Church: A Portal
		The reaction in Greece, where the Patriarchate held a great deal of sway, was one of alarm, leading notable clergy of the Church of Greece to argue that such a change was not only impossible, but that its implementation would lead to schism.
		In protest, the former Primate of the Church of Greece, Germanos of Demetrias, retired in protest.
		The Church styled itself the Holy Orthodox Church in North America (HOCNA) was given two American Bishops, after which a third was made: currently the HOCNA Synod, which in 2001 declared itself administratively independent of its mother Church in Greece, has four Bishops.
	www.geocities.com /joesuaiden/trueorthodox/trueorthodoxchurch.html (6182 words)

	Answers In Action - Church of Greece Hunting Husbands for Priests
		The very conservative Church of Greece, part of the Eastern Orthodox communion of churches, yesterday launched a campaign to convince Greek women that life with a priest (who are allowed to marry before taking their final vows) is good.
		The church announced that a new committee would examine "pastoral methods to obtain and prepare priests' wives." One unidentified priest interviewed by the Kathimerini, Greece's international English language newspaper, said, "They just need to be told convincingly that life with a priest is not substantially different from that with any other husband."
		Church officials were quick to say that they would not be disrupting any ordinary church education or action in order to encourage young women to marry priests -- saying that, for example, church catechism classes would not be transformed into matchmaking courses.
	answers.org /news/article.php?story=20041104114740375 (311 words)

	The Catholic Church in Crete, Greece
		There is a Catholic church in Nafplion, another in Aspra Spitia (near the Aluminum industry of Greece) which might be helpful to the Catholic tourists visiting Greece on their way to Mycenee, Epidavros, the Peloponnese, Delphi and Beotia.
		Archbishop of Athens and Apostolic Administrator of Rhodes (central and southern Greece, and Dodecanese).
		In spite of the repeated efforts of the Catholic Hierarchy of Greece addressed to the government during the last 50 years, and the last decade in particular, the State does not seem willing to find a solution to the problems concerning the Catholic Church in Greece.
	www.interkriti.net /ccc/004.htm (753 words)

	CANEA CATHOLIC CHURCH v. GREECE - 25528/94 [1997] ECHR 100 (16 December 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		6. The Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary (Tis Panagias) in Canea is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic diocese of Crete.
		The plaintiff church answered the objection by stating that it was a cloister church, founded and authorised before 1830 and recognised under the Protocol of London of 3 February 1830.
		Those churches – including the applicant church – have in their own name acquired, used and freely transferred movable and immovable property, concluded contracts and taken part in, among others, notarial transactions, whose validity has always been recognised.
	www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/1997/100.html (5097 words)

	CESNUR 2001 - The Legal Treatment of Scientology’s Church in Greece (Kyriazopoulos)
		If Greece is not allowed to hinder the exercise of the aforementioned rights of the Catholic Church of Greece with regard to the Holy See, it is not allowed for the same reasons to do so with the Greek Church of Scientology with regard to the Church of Scientology International.
		Antonis Alevizopoulos, secretary of the Synodic Committee for the heresies of Orthodox Church of Greece [10].
		This means that the administrative mechanism of Orthodox Church of Greece is incorporated into the administrative mechanism of the State.
	www.cesnur.org /2001/london2001/kyriazopoulos.htm (5716 words)

	Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has decided to restore the order of the diaconate for women.
		Under the leadership of Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, the decision was taken at the October 8, 2004 meeting which brought together 64 bishops from throughout Greece.
		The decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece is in conformity with the decision of the Pan-Orthodox Consultation on Rhodes in 1988.
	www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com /158/Women.htm (766 words)

	Freemasonry: Official Statement of the Church of Greece (1933)
		The Bishops of the Church of Greece in their session of October 12, 1933, concerned themselves with the study and examination of the secret international organization, Freemasonry.
		The assembly of the Bishops of the Church of Greece in the above mentioned session heard with relief and accepted the following conclusions which were drawn from the investigations and discussions by its President His Grace Archbishop Chrysostom of Athens:
		Unanimously and with one voice all the Bishops of the Church of Greece have approved what was said, and we declare that all the faithful children of the Church must stand apart from Freemasonry.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/masonry.aspx (1362 words)


		On 29th June of 1850 the Patriarchal Synod issued the Synodic Volume, through which the Greek Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Ecumenical Patriarchate were proclaimed the Self-Governed Church of Greece.
		Its supreme ecclesiastical authority is the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.
		President of the Holy Synod is the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
	www.ecclesia.gr /English/the_church/index.html (95 words)

	Ecumenism and the New Calendar Orthodox Church of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In speaking about the determination of the limits of the Church and deviations from Orthodox ecclesiology, His Eminence, Metropolitan Ierotheos certainly knows fully well to whom this pertains, and he is undoubtedly referring to views which he has clearly expressed in the past.
		The Church is never sundered; rather, individuals break away and depart from Her, thereby forfeiting eternal life.
		The reality, nonetheless, is that the Church exists and that She is the Orthodox Church; and, furthermore, that we are waiting for the errant, the heretics, to return to Her in repentance and to acknowledge the truth as our Holy Fathers have handed it down to us.2
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /ecumenism/ecumenism_greece.aspx (724 words)

	DIALOGUE BETWEEN ROME AND GREEK ORTHODOX
		The Catholic delegation was led by Cardinal Augustine Bea, by Bishops Jan Willebrands and Jacques Martin, by Frs Duprey, Giovanelli, Raes, Smith and by professors Giuseppe Schirò and Agostino Pertusi, famous scholars and promoters of friendship between Greece and Italy, and between Catholics and Orthodox.
		Greece took steps to prepare for the theological dialogue.
		In 1975, on the 10th anniversary of the abrogation of the excommunication, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced to Rome that, after an inter-Orthodox Consultation, one could think of preparing the theological dialogue in a practical way.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CURIA/PCCUGRK.HTM (1771 words)

	Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several Christian Churches or church bodies are commonly referred to as "Orthodox".
		The Church of Slovakia and the Czech Lands
		It is also used by some church bodies associated with the Old Catholic Church, Continuing Anglican Movement, and Liberal Catholic Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthodox_Church (216 words)

	Published by Americamagazine
		The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece voted in Athens on Oct. 8, 2004, to restore the female diaconate.
		The rejuvenation of the order of deaconess in the Church of Greece is expected to begin during the winter of 2004-5.
		In fact, the Catholic Church has already indirectly acknowledged valid ordinations of women by the Armenian Apostolic Church, one of the churches of the East that ordains women deacons.
	www.apostle1.com /06-28-2005-greek-female-diaconate-restored1.htm (2101 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Orthodox Church split with Greece
		The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians has suspended relations with the head of Greece's Orthodox Church -- a move that could lead to severed ties between the two churches.
		He is also considered the head of 14 autonomous Orthodox churches, including those of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Russia and Serbia.
		The warning was seen in Athens as a threat to effectively break off ties between the two churches.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=2004050305570339 (503 words)

	Representation of the Church of Greece to the European Union
		Representation of the Church of Greece to the European Union
		Press Release of the Church of Greece, 11 July 2006...
		Press Release of the Church of Greece, 29 June 2006...
	www.regue.org (81 words)

	Armenian Evangelical Church of Greece - P. Kokkinia,Piraeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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