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Show PRELATE DEPOSED BY ROYAL DECREE ATHENS lb. 8. Most Rev. Mele-tlos Mele-tlos Metaxakis. recently elected patriarch pat-riarch of Constantinople, is deposed of I his rank anil position, under a roryal ' decree published In the Oftlcial Ga-! Ga-! zetle. Early In January an ecclesiastical : court presided over by the inetropoll- tan of Athens found AYchbishop Metaxakis Me-taxakis Kuilty of attempting to bring .about a schism In the church and or- dered him deprived of rank and secluded se-cluded SS a monk In the monastery on the island of Zante. |