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New Orthodox patriarch chosen
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Metropolitan Bartholomaios of Chalcedon, who for more than a
decade has been the chief representative of the world's 300 million
Orthodox Christians in a variety of meetings with other church
bodies, yesterday was elected ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
The churchman, who is 51, will be enthroned as Patriarch
Bartholomaios I in Istanbul on Nov. 2. He succeeds Patriarch
Dimitrios I, who died of heart failure on Oct. 3 at 77.
The new Orthodox leader studied at the pat...
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