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Unlike Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy has no single head but what has been described as "an oligarchy of patriarchs." There are five major patriarchates: Constantinople (Istanbul), Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Moscow, plus lesser patriarchs for the Serbs, Rumanians and Georgians. Most prestigious is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, called "first among equals," whose present incumbent is Archbishop Athenagoras I, longtime friend of Pope John...
Welcome, good people, watch and listen To a play in praise of the prophet Daniel, Beloved of the Lord. Long has he dwelt In brick Babylon, built by a river, Far from Jerusalem, his real home...
Nineteen hundred years after Christ was crucified outside Jerusalem, a Mexican child whose father was a man named José and whose mother was called Maria de Jesús was born in a mulecart at Tepoztlán, an Indian village between the capital and Cuernavaca. His mother had him christened Manuel...
...Patriarch of Antioch is shepherd of about 1,000,000 souls throughout the world-110,000 of them in the U.S., 40,000 in Canada and 250,000 in Latin America. The Antioch patriarchate shares dogma, tradition and ritual with the other Orthodox patriarchates-Russia, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria-in a relationship roughly equivalent to the communion between the Episcopalian Church and the Church of England. Ever since 1945 the U.S.S.R. has been wooing the patriarchs with offers of money-earning properties in Russia, gifts to monasteries, and free trips to Moscow. When Antioch Patriarch Alexandros III died last June, after...
Graves's theory is that the first four chapters of Genesis were written by a priest living in Jerusalem after the return of the Jews from exile in Babylonia. His priestly narrator was familiar with pre-exilic creation stories, and he used a set of Mycenaeo-Edomite pictorial tablets "given to, or taken by, Joshua's invading Israelites when they seized Hebron." But either deliberately or through ignorance, he read the tablets in the wrong order and with the wrong cast of characters. This resulted in various anomalies, such as the story of Eve's creation from...