Archbishop Michael, Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae.
Archbishop Michael, Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae.
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Archbishop Michael, Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae.
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Greek Orthodox Church Taxiarchae. Archbishop Michael served as spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in the Western Hemisphere from 1949 until his untimely death in 1958. He was a noted scholar, theologian, pastor, ecumenist, author and administrator. He was ordained to the Diaconate in 1914 and assumed the ecclesiastical name of Michael. On October 11, 1949, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected him Archbishop North and South America. Archbishop Michael was able to get Congress to adopt a bill that recognized Eastern Orthodox in the Armed Forces as separate from Catholics and Protestants. He became the first Orthodox hierarch to take part in the inaugural ceremony of a president, that of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by delivering the invocation. He died in Doctors? Hospital (New York) on July 13, 1958.
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