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==Life==
[[Archbishop ]] Spyridonwas born George C. P. George in Warren, Ohio on [[September 24]], 1944, the son of Clara and the late Dr. Constantine P. George. Dr. George, a native of the island of Rhodes, practiced medicine in various cities in the United States before returning to Rhodes when his son George was born on [[September 24]]nine years old. George returned to the United States when he was 15 years old and lived for two years in Tarpon Springs, Florida, the birthplace of his mother. There, 1944he completed high school, graduating in Warren, Ohio1962.
After completing graduating from high school, George returned to Greece. Wanting to enter the priesthood, in 1962, he enrolled at the [[Theological School of Halki]] from which he graduated in 1966 with honors. In 1967, George continued his graduate studies for a year in Switzerland, specializing in the history of Protestant Churches. He then continued his elementary education studies in Steubenvillethe subjects of Ecumenical Theology and Byzantine Literature at Bochum University in Germany, Ohiofrom 1969 to 1973, and Rhodesunder a scholarship from the Ecumenical Patriarchate. He became fluent in Greek, English, French, GreeceItalian, and German. During these years he graduated in 1962 from Tarpon Springs High School served as secretary at the Permanent Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches and as Secretary of the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Chambesy in FloridaGeneva.
Due to conflicts within the church Spyridon resigned from the archiepiscopal throne of America on [[August 19]], 1999 and never accepted his subsequent appointment as Metropolitan of Chaldea by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On [[September 15]], 1999, he left New York and moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where he occasionally grants interviews and writes articles for the Greek press in America.
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*[http://www.spyridon.org/biograph.html Biographical Profile of Archbishop Spyridon, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America]
==External linklinks==*[http://www.orthodoxresearchinstituteaspyridon-efiles.orgx10.mx/resourcesspyridon_1996/hierarchs/constantinople/formerarchbishop%20spyridon_bio.htm#spyridon_metr_chaldia Listing] at from the Orthodox Research Institute*[http://www.spyridon.ws/EN/intro.html The Lonely Path of Integrity]
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