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Bishops offer condolences to Greek Orthodox mourning leader’s death

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By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic bishops of Greece offered their condolences to the country’s Orthodox majority as they mourned the death of Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens.

The primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, 69, died Jan. 28 in Athens after a long struggle with intestinal and liver cancer.

Under the leadership of Archbishop Christodoulos, who was elected in 1998 to lead the Greek Orthodox Church, relations between Catholics and Greek Orthodox improved remarkably.

The country’s Catholic bishops called his death “a great loss for the Greek Orthodox Church and for the ecumenical movement,” reported L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

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