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Do They See the Difference in Our Lives?: Encyclical on Ecumenism, the Pope and the Patriarch

By Webmaster on June 20, 2014 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News

Metropolitan Nicholas (Hatzinikolaou)

Source: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

by Metropolitan Nicholas (Hatzinikolaou) of Mesogaia and Lavriotiki

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