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| − | '''Meletios Metaxakis''' served as Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church from 1921-1923.
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| − | '''Meletios Metaxakis''', then Metropolitan of Athens, arrived in America on [[October 20]], [[1918]], and soon established the Synodical Council setting the pattern for centralized Church administration.
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| − | In effect, this was the first step towards the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, which was incorporated in [[1921]], and officially recognized by the State of New York in [[1922]].
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| − | When Meletios was elected '''Ecumenical Patriarch Meletios IV''' in January, [[1922]], one of his first official decrees on March 1st of that year was to restore the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This was formalized on [[May 11]], [[1922]] when Patriarch Meletios declared the Church of America as an Archdiocese appointing the Rt. Rev. Alexander Titular Bishop of Rodostolon , as his Patriarchal Exarch here.
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| − | [[Category:Ecumenical Patriarchs|Metaxakis,Meletios]] | |
