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in both Greece and the United States. Shortly after his departure for Africa from Athens, a new missionary movement began in Greece in 1961 called "The Inter-Orthodox
Missionary Center" under the aegis of the Pan-Orthodox Youth movement Syndesmos. ...A new journal entitled
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of the Church. Orthodox history teaches that like prayer, the life of "a righteous man has great power in its effect" (James 5:16). However the seemingly humble ministry of this one missionary, advanced in age before he began, has had a direct effect on the
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At the age of 57 Fr. Chrysostomos decided to go on his mission to Africa. The
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monastery in order to pursue his longing for the spiritual life; however he soon left this monastery since his relatives would visit him and beg him to return to the family.
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This Society has as its goal the moral and material support of Orthodox External Mission all over the world. It started off its activities under the name of
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to a considerable extent. I speak it together mixed with English, and I am understood fairly well."
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and Protestant missionaries who supported it, the Eastern Orthodox Church was in a perilous state.
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Theological School. At the age of 55, in 1958, he finally received his theological degree.
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assist him. One month before his death, he wrote a letter saying:
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will show me, as He always has in the past. Remember me in your
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