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- Oct. 14, 1991: Died:Dimitrios I
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 65
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- <p> DIED. Dimitrios I, 77, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
- and spiritual leader of the world's 150 million Eastern
- Orthodox Christians; in Istanbul. Elected in 1972, Dimitrios
- conferred with Pope John Paul II during his 1979 trip to Turkey
- and at the Vatican in 1987, promising to work toward closer ties
- between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. In
- 1987 Dimitrios became the first Ecumenical Patriarch in nearly
- 400 years to visit the Soviet Union and last year the first to
- visit the U.S.
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