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Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Maximos dies at 85
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Metropolitan Maximos Aghiorgoussis, the longest-serving spiritual leader of Pittsburgh’s Greek Orthodox community, with a 32-year tenure marked by growth and efforts toward unity among Orthodox churches and the wider Christian community, died Monday. He was 85. -- The Greek-born son of a priest, he went on to become a prominent Orthodox theologian who in 1965 helped to engineer a historic breakthrough in Orthodox-Catholic relations.
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