Not unless by "underhanded" you are describing the manner in which the rocket launcher was being held!
Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122
Posted on 09/11/2004 9:26:07 PM PDT by gutshot
ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- Egypt's Patriarch of Alexandria, a top leader of the Greek Orthodox church, is among 17 people killed in a helicopter crash off northern Greece.
The military aircraft, which was carrying a delegation of religious officials, crashed into the Aegean Sea on Saturday, according to a Greek Defense Ministry official.
Seven bodies have been recovered and rescuers are searching for the other 10 people who were aboard the helicopter.
Patriarch Petros of Alexandria, the head of the 300,000 Christian Orthodox congregation in Africa, was on the flight with 11 other church officials and five crew members, Lt. Gen. Nikos Douvas said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I got 10 bucks that says there was something underhanded involved in this. Any takers?
Not unless by "underhanded" you are describing the manner in which the rocket launcher was being held!
Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122
The Patriarch of Alexandria is on the same level as the Pope.
http://www.greece.org/arts-culture/alex-new/html/h.b._petros_vii.html 
This is terrible. Prayers for those lost and those left behind.
Patriarch Petros had overseen a tremendous expansion of Holy Orthodoxy in Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, and Kenya especially come to mind). He will be missed!
(Incidentally the full title is Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria.)
Patriarch Petros had overseen a tremendous expansion of Holy Orthodoxy in Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, and Kenya especially come to mind). He will be missed!
(Incidentally the full title is Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria.)
Isn't Pope Shenouda III still alive? He was in 2003. I thought he was the highest church leader in the Coptic Church.
Pope Shenouda III of the Eastern Orthodox Church:
My sympathy to all our EO posters, this is a very sad day .
He now is in the presence of the one He worshiped, that we can celebrate even as we can celebrate his life.
Patriarch Petros was the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria. According to the news reports, he was born in Cyprus. Pope Shenouda III is the Coptic patriarch.
Yes, of course, you are right. The victim of the helicopter crash was Petros VII, the Greek Orthodox Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. Among the other 16 people who died in the crash were three bishops of the Church; Metropolitan bishop Chrysostomos of Carthage, Metropolitan Ireneus of Pelusium, and Bishop Nectarios of Madagascar.
http://antiochian.org/
did Egypt's Patriarch of Alexandria have a connection to Whitewater?
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