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unusual facts about Church of Greece


Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio was baptized Patricio Lefcadio Hearn in the Greek Orthodox Church.


Old Calendarists

A revised form of the Julian Calendar, developed by the Serbian astronomer Milutin Milanković, which mostly coincides with the Gregorian one, was finally adopted by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1924 as well as by the autocephalous Church of Greece.


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Vissarion Korkoliacos

The Bishop of Fthiotida, Nickolaos, said that the Church should not be in a hurry to announce any kind of sanctity of the monk Vissarion, and that the issue should be discussed at the Iera Sinodhos (Holy Synod) of the Orthodox Church of Greece in Athens.