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Head of Greece's Orthodox Church dies (AP)

In this Saturday, May 9, 1998 picture, Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, prepares to give his enthronement address in Athens' main cathedral. Christodoulos, who eased centuries of tension with the Vatican but angered liberal critics who viewed him as an attention-seeking reactionary, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 of cancer, church officials said. He was 69. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Athens’ cathedral to file past the remains of Archbishop Christodoulos, the first leader of Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church to welcome a Catholic pope to Athens in 1,300 years.

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