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Article: Greek priest leads Orthodox celebration
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 3, 1988
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It's appropriate that the leader of today's and tomorrow's
Pan-Orthodox celebration of Christianity's 1,000 years in what is now
the Soviet Union should be a Greek priest.
The Rev. Dean Botsis is president of the Orthodox Christian
Clergy Association, host of the multisite gathering recognizing the
baptism and spread of faith among the ancestors of today's
Byelorussians, Russians and Ukrainians.
The Greek brothers Cyrill and Methodius began missionary efforts
among eastern Slavs in 863. In 988, Prince Vladimir of the Kievan
Rus' accepted the Orthodox wing of Christianity as the religion for
his people, thus linking most modern Slavs to the Byzantine, not
Roman, rite of worship.
"The ...