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Tag: Panteleimon of Neapolis

There’s a Piece of the True Cross at the Truman Library in Missouri

December 12, 2019

Yesterday, I published an article about the ouster of Ecumenical Patriarch Maximos V. In that article, I mentioned that on February 10, 1947, the Greek Archbishop Athenagoras awarded President Harry Truman with a piece…
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Jerusalem’s Abp Panteleimon in America, 1924-1931

October 27, 2009

On October 19, I wrote about Archbishop Panteleimon of Neapolis (today’s Nablus), a bishop of the Jerusalem Patriarchate who was active in America in the 1920s. Since then, thanks to help from some readers,…
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Abp Panteleimon & the Jerusalem Patriarchate in America

October 19, 2009

When most people think of the Jerusalem Patriarchate in America, they think of the controversial jursidiction that spung up in the past decade or so, which included ethnic Palestinians and some former clergy of…
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