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		—the Delegation from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch,
		the Delegation from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem,
		—the Delegation from the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria,
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	Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic, Greek Orthodox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1589 the patriarchate of Moscow was established and formally recognized by Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople.
		Orthodox observers were present at the sessions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), and several meetings took place between popes Paul VI and John Paul II on the one side, and patriarchs Athenagoras and Demetrios on the other.
		The Orthodox Tradition is the theological tradition, generally associated with the national churches of the eastern Mediterranean and eastern Europe and principally with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, whose distinguishing characteristic consists in preservation of the integrity of the doctrines taught by the fathers of the seven ecumenical councils of the fourth through eighth centuries.
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	History of the Orthodox Church
		Orthodox worship, for example, is invariably also a witness to history; it recalls, in its rich diversity, particular historical events not only from the earthly life of the Lord, but from the life of the Church, its saints, ascetics, martyrs, and theologians.
		The hanging of patriarch Gregory V from the gate of the patriarchate on Easter Sunday 1821 was accompanied by the execution of two metropolitans and twelve bishops.
		As the Orthodox statement at the Evanston Assembly of 1954 states, it is to "the faith of the ancient, united and indivisible Church of the seven ecumenical councils, namely, to the pure and unchanged and common heritage of the forefathers of all divided Christians" that we bear witness.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article7053.asp (8510 words)

	Patriarch of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Patriarch of Alexandria is the Archbishop of Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt.
		Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all Africa.
		The leader of the Coptic Catholic Church, known as Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriarch_of_Alexandria (635 words)

	Petros V I I \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Petros VII, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria, who preached Christian-Muslim dialogue from one of the world's oldest seats of Christianity and who vigorously promoted the growth of Greek Orthodoxy in Africa, died Saturday at age 55.
		Within the Greek Orthodox Church, Petros was considered second in rank only to the ecumenical patriarch in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly Constantinople and the one-time capital of the Byzantine Empire.
		He was enthroned as the 115th patriarch and pope of Alexandria and all Africa in 1997, taking over one of the poorest Greek Orthodox patriarchates and one of only three that serve the Arab world's diminishing population of Christians.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041003/news_1m3petros.html (541 words)

	Patriarch Parthenios III of Alexandria and All Africa dies
		Patriarch Parthenios III of Alexandria and All Africa dies
		Geneva (ENI) — The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Parthenios III, age 76, died of a heart attack on July 23 during a visit to Greece, a church spokesman said in Athens.
		Patriarch Parthenios III was "one of the most talented spiritual and scholarly personalities in the Eastern Orthodox Church", one commentator said a few years ago.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /resources/obituaries/obit_parthenios3_july_1996.htm (681 words)

	Orthodox-Catholic Church of America -- History
		In 1922 the Patriarch of Constantinople formally established the "Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America" and shortly thereafter other of the Patriarchates and national churches claimed the right to similarly provide for their immigrant faithful in the establishing in America of a bishopric of their particular ethnicity and national extraction.
		To the English ecclesiastical establishment, the growing Greek and Russian presence in England was simply an Eastern "branch" of the Catholic Church being accorded hospitality in the territorial sphere of its surviving post-schism "Western Branch" - "the on-going ancient and Orthodox Church in Britain".
		Statistics published in 1991 by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America indicates that 80 percent of all Orthodox in America are either American born or American reared from infancy.
	www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org /history.html (7970 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Patriarch Petros: Architect of revival
		The Patriarch was born in Cyprus in 1949.
		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.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3648260.stm (334 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria died in a weekend helicopter crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among the dead was Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa and one of the most senior figures of the Orthodox Church.
		Having spent the next four years in Alexandria, where he was marked out for high office by the then Patriarch, Nicholas VI, he studied theology at Athens University from 1974 until 1978, when he was ordained priest.
		The Patriarch also made the restoration of church buildings a priority, notably the monasteries of St Savvas in Alexandria and St George in Cairo, and it was while flying to the centre of Orthodox monasticism, Mount Athos in Greece, that the Greek military helicopter in which he was travelling crashed in the Aegean Sea.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/09/13/56063_.html (671 words)

	Helicopter crash kills top cleric
		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.
		Patriarch Petros was the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.
		The victim of the helicopter crash was Petros VII, the Greek Orthodox Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1213645/posts (695 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Greece air crash kills top cleric
		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.
		A church spokesman said the death of Patriarch Petros was a huge loss as he had breathed new life into the Orthodox Church in Africa since being elected seven years ago.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3647624.stm (269 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| His Beatitude Theodoros II: A Greek primer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Extrapolating on the theological differences between the Greek Orthodox and Coptic churches, he notes that the Greek Orthodox Church is Chalcedonian and Melkite in the Byzantine tradition.
		The Greek Orthodox Patriarch nods and cocks his head at the doctrinal issues that a millennia and a half ago fragmented the church.
		In the Greek tradition, as in the Coptic, it is customary to kiss the hand of priests and bishops.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/740/profile.htm (2210 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Orthodox Church
		The technical name for the body of Christians who use the Byzantine Rite in various languages and are in union with the Patriarch of Constantinople but in schism with the Pope of Rome.
		It is almost exactly a Greek form of the official title of the chief enemies of the Greeks, i.e.
		The Orthodox, then, are the Christians in the East of Europe, in Egypt and Asia, who accept the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon (are therefore neither Nestorians nor Monophysites), but who, as the result of the schisms of Photius (ninth cent.) and Cerularius (eleventh cent.), are not in communion with the Catholic Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11329a.htm (497 words)

	* Greek Orthodox Church *
		The Greek Orthodox Church in Alexandria (Egypt) is a remnant of the Egyptian Church which remained loyal to the Orthodox communion after the Monophysite and Monothelitism controversies.
		The seat of the Coptic patriarch was in Alexandria until the seventh century, when it was moved to Cairo, to the Church of the Virgin (The famous "Hanging Church"), but was moved back to Alexandria in the fourteenth century.
		Greek culture is closely intertwined with the liturgical calendar.
	orvillejenkins.com /religions/orthodoxobj.html (1534 words)

	Middle East Council of Churches
		Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East
		Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria & Jerusalem
		His Holiness Patriarch Petros VII, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa and one of the MECC's four Presidents, died today in a helicopter crash.
	mecc.blogspot.com (1090 words)

	Partiarch Gregory III of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem
		Patriarch of the cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, of Cilicia, Syria, Iberia, Arabia Mesopotamia, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, of all of Egypt and the entire East, Father of Fathers, Pastor of Pastors, Bishop of Bishops, the Thirteenth of the Holy Apostles
		Patriarch Gregory III was born in Daraya, near Damascus, Syria, in 1933.
		Appointed by Patriarch Maximos V Hakim as president of the Patriarchal Liturgical Commission, he edited "the Anthologion," the prayer book of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in four volumes, and "the Book of the Liturgies," a complete and updated compendium of the Divine Liturgy.
	www.melkite.org /patriarch.html (840 words)

	wfn.org \| His Beatitude Parthenios
		The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Parthenios III, aged 76, died of a heart attack on 23 July during a visit to Greece.
		It was in recognition of his genuine ecumenical commitment and his profound spiritual wisdom that he was invited to present an address on the main theme of the World Council of Churches' Assembly in Canberra in 1991, where he was subsequently elected as a President of the World Council of Churches.
		In 1958 he was elected Metropolitan of Carthage in the diocese of Tripoli, Libya, and became a permanent member of the Synod of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria.
	www.wfn.org /1996/08/msg00081.html (533 words)

	Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa
		Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa
		he Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa is an autochephalous Orthodox Church ministering to the spiritual needs of all Orthodox Christians throughout Africa.
		he Patriarchal throne, established by the disciple of Christ, Evangelist Markos in the year 43, represents one of the oldest established Churches in the Christian world.
	www.greece.org /arts-culture/alex-new/html/patriarchate.html (100 words)

	Patriarchate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
		Aphrem Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary and the Patriarchate at Ma`arat Sayyidnaya, Damascus, Syria
		Patriarch and one of the most important matters on His Holiness' mind was the issue of the seminary.
		It is worth noting that the Greek Orthodox Synod under the headship of His Grace Archbishop Seraphim gave the monastery three bells as a token of their appreciation for His Holiness Patriarch Zakka I Iwas and the Syrian Orthodox Church.
	syriacchristianity.org /PZakka/Patriarchate.htm (1306 words)

	Suggested Links - St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church
		Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria: Web site of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa which, as an autocephalous Orthodox Church, ministers to the spiritual needs of all Orthodox Christians throughout Africa.
		In Communion: Website of The Orthodox Peace Fellowship of the Protection of the Mother of God; an association of Orthodox believers trying to apply the principals of the Gospel to situations of division and conflict.
		Orthodox Christianity and American Culture: Conflict or Transformation: Lecture by Prof.
	www.stmaryofegypt.net /links.shtml (409 words)

	Coptic Christianity - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Coptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately AD 60).
		The church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
		From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the "Melkite" or Imperial Patriarch, now known as the Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, and the non-Chalcedonian national Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7601 (2385 words)

	HISTORY OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE
		But the patriarchs of these "lost" Eastern centers continued in the Byzantine period to be represented at Constantinople by legates (or in person) and sat with the Synodos Endemousa (standing or permanent synod).
		In the Byzantine East basic in the history of the Patriarchate was the fact that the Emperor was always resident in the same city.
		In all the various struggles waged for the preservation of the purity of the Orthodox faith, whether Orthodoxy was threatened from without by external enemies or from within by heretics, the Patriarchs by their stance stood in the vanguard of the defenders of the Orthodox faith.
	www.archons.org /patriarchate/history/pentarchy.asp (585 words)

	MECC
		The Family of the Oriental Orthodox Churches is composed of seven delegations (Coptic, Syrian, Armenians of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenians of the Great House of Cilicia, Ethiopian, Indian and Eritrean).
		A new Patriarch, H.H. Abune Antonios I, was elected in the Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Eritrea on 5 March 2004 and enthroned as the third Patriarch of this Church, on Sunday, 25 April 2004.
		Daniel Korea from the Syrian Orthodox Church was elected upon the nomination of Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I, as the new Executive Secretary of ATIME for a three year term, which can be renewed.
	www.mec-churches.org /positions/Oriental_churches.htm (2389 words)

	MECC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born in the village of Sichari in Cyprus on September 3, 1949, His Beatitude Petros VII served as a deacon in the Patriarchate of Alexandria starting in 1970, was ordained a priest in 1978 and became Bishop in 1983, at the age of 33.
		He was enthroned as Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa on March 9, 1997, at the age of 47.
		He was the second Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa to hold the presidency.
	www.mec-churches.org /news_brief/news_brief_sep04.htm (1278 words)

	Greek air force chief sacked after Orthodox leader dies in chopper crash by Helene Colliopoulou
		Peter VII was greatly respected for his work on improving Orthodox relations with the Coptic and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as for his many humanitarian commitments in Africa.
		UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was saddened to learn of the death and sent his condolences to the families the crash victims and to the Greek Orthodox community.
		Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II also expressed his condolences, saying "this great loss has struck all of the Orthodox".
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040912192905.2zhm1u02.html (634 words)

	British Orthodox Church
		The Coptic Orthodox Church warmly congratulates the Armenian Apostolic Church on the 17th Centenary celebrations of the consecration of the Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin.
		His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II expressed his willingness to invite representatives of the Churches in the Oriental Orthodox family, to meet at Holy Etchmiadzin and to discuss together areas of collaboration as churches having the same Christian Orthodox Faith.
		Mikhail of an official request for recognition of the Coptic Orthodox Church as a denomination in Mexico, a decree number SGAR/2588/2003 was issued from the Mexican Ministry of Interior according official recognition of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Mexico.
	www.britishorthodox.org /108c.php (1326 words)

	Catholic World News : American Appointed Greek Orthodox Archbishop Of All-Americas
		ISTANBUL, Turkey (CWN) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul) announced on Tuesday the election of Metropolitan Spyridon Yorgi as the new Greek Orthodox archbishop of North and South America.
		The Greek Orthodox archdiocese of North and South America is under direct control of the Ecumenical Patriarch.
		Patriarch Parthenios was buried in Cairo on Tuesday.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=1378 (302 words)

	List of Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria has the title Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa.
		List of Patriarchs of Alexandria, for the earlier Patriarchs of Alexandria prior to the schism.
		List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria, for the Patriarchs of the Coptic Orthodox Church that split from Eastern Orthodoxy as a result of Chalcedon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Alexandria (132 words)

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