The Greek Church has warmed to the mosque idea but some senior ecclesiastical figures remain opposed.
Already, day-to-day relations between the 400, 000 Albanians working in Greece and their host country have been strained by the upsurge of pro-Serb feeling among the Greeks, especially the Greek church.
Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Greek Orthodox church, to which 98% of the population belongs, is partly to blame.
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Archbishop Demetrios marks his second decade guiding the Greek Orthodox Church and community in America, four decades as a bishop, and, recently, his 82nd birthday.
Snowe, 66, came about her independence through being orphaned at age 9 and sent off to an out-of-state boarding school run by the Greek Orthodox Church.
Michael's became the first Greek Catholic church in the country.
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The Greek Orthodox church may also be told to stump up half of the wage costs for priests, despite earlier reassurances that the state would continue to foot the entire bill.
Syria's Patriarch Gregory III Laham of Antioch, who heads the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, on Thursday invited Francis to visit Syria, Jerusalem and Lebanon for peace and reconciliation, according to Syria's official news agency.
He saw sunspots, demonstrating that the sun itself was not the perfect orb demanded by the Greek cosmology that had been adopted by the church.
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Derived from the Greek word for "circle, " an encyclical is among the church's most authoritative teaching documents.
His declaration that "upon this rock I will build my church" famously played on the way Peter's name echoed the Ancient Greek word for rock, "petra".
The Greek Catholics, who follow Orthodox-style rites but are loyal to the Vatican, re-established their church in 1991.
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