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Article: From altar boy to bishop: Rev. Demetri Kantzavelos returns to his childhood parish to be elevated in the hierarchy of the Greek Orthodox church.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- December 8, 2006
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Byline: Manya A. Brachear
Dec. 8--Wearing a golden miter and vestments custom-made for him in Greece, Rev. Demetri Kantzavelos will kneel before the altar of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church Saturday just as he did more than three decades ago. An altar boy then, Kantzavelos is being elevated to auxiliary bishop, considered a successor of the apostles in Orthodox tradition. At 44, he will be the youngest bishop currently in the 4 million-member Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. While Kantzavelos traces his clerical calling to adolescence, his mother, Merope, had an inkling when he was 6 that the oldest of her four children would become a priest. With ...