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Greek Orthodox Archbishop to Speak at Yale Divinity School


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Date Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:11:41 -0700

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For Immediate Release
April 18, 2003

YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL
PRESS RELEASE
Contact:  Tim Townsend
Director of Communications
Yale Divinity School
Tel: (203) - 432-3466

Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America to Speak at Yale Divinity School

New  Haven,  Conn.  ?  Archbishop  Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox
Church	in  America,  will  speak at Yale Divinity School on Tuesday, April
29th,  2003.   His lecture, "'As Poor, Yet Making Many Rich' (2 Corinthians
6:10):	Orthodoxy  in  the  American  Context"	will take place in Marquand
Chapel at 4:00 p.m.  A reception will follow.

Born  in Thessalonike, Greece, Archbishop Demetrios (Trakatellis) currently
leads  the  Greek  Orthodox Archdiocese of America.  A noted scholar in the
field  of  New	Testament and Christian Origins, he received his Ph.D. from
Harvard  University in 1971 and has held professorships at Holy Cross Greek
Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, and Harvard Divinity School.

Yale  University  Divinity  School,  a graduate professional school of Yale
University,  offers a setting for the scholarly assessment of the religious
features of human existence. The School currently has 411 students pursuing
three  degrees: Master of Divinity, Master of Religion and Master of Sacred
Theology.

YDS  is  the academic home not only to the Divinity School, but also to its
partners  in  theological  education,  the Berkeley Divinity School and the
Yale  Institute  of  Sacred  Music.  The  three institutions share a common
mission of training leaders for communities of Christian conviction.

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