Patriarch Athenagoras

Patriarch Athenagoras I (born Aristokles Spyrou) (March 25, 1886 - July 6/7, 1972) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972.

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March 25 - 1886 - July 6 - 7 - 1972 - Patriarch of Constantinople - 1948

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His meeting with Pope John XXIII and Paul VI (1964) in the Second Vatican Council led to rescinding the 1054 excommunications of the Great Schism. This was a significant step towards restoring full communion between Rome and Constantinople, and it produced the Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965.

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Pope John XXIII - Paul VI - 1964 - Second Vatican Council - 1054 - Great Schism - Full communion - Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965

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He was born in 1886 in Tsaraplana, Epirus, Greece, and died in Istanbul, Turkey in 1972.

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1886 - Tsaraplana - Epirus - Greece - Istanbul - Turkey - 1972

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See also: Eastern Orthodoxy - Michael Cerularius

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Eastern Orthodoxy - Michael Cerularius

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