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World Council of Churches - Yearbook 2000

1999: The Year in Review

By Marlin VanElderen

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Elsewhere in the oikoumene

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In New York in September, Archbishop Demetrios was enthroned as primate of the 1.5-million member Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, ending a three-year period of tensions - and in some quarters open talk of a split in the church - which had marked the tenure of his predecessor, Archbishop Spyridon, who resigned his position in August.

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[ World Council of Churches - Yearbook 2000 - p. 15 ]

[ World Council of Churches - www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/ - 2000 ]