Greek Orthodox church head dies
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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, dies, aged 69, after a battle with cancer.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of the Roman Catholic church in Washington, DC, for 20 years, died on Sunday, the city&#39;s regional church body said.
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- The longtime conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Orchestra shot himself to death at the glass-and-steel church Friday after a nine-hour standoff, which started just before a Christmas pageant was to begin.
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Mormon leader Gordon B. Hinckley died Sunday night at age 97, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced.
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Egypt&#39;s Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, has been killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities say.
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Cardinal James Aloysius Hickey, head of the Washington Archdiocese for 20 years, died at a Washington nursing home Sunday, the Washington Post reported.
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Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.
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A Romanian church leader who was exposed as a collaborator a week ago dies of a heart attack.
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A day after Africa&#39;s senior Greek Orthodox prelate and 16 others died in a helicopter crash in the northern Aegean, the Greek defense minister, Spilios Spiliotopoulos
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Gordon B. Hinckley, the longest-serving president of the Mormon church who presided over one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, died Sunday, a church spokesman said. He was 97.
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Vatican, Sep. 13  - The Greek Orthodox Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria was killed in a helicopter crash on September 11, along with several other Orthodox prelates, as he traveled to Mount Athos.
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Greece holds three days of mourning for Patriarch Petros of Alexandria, who died in a helicopter crash.
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The top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank died Thursday morning after being gunned down by two assailants the night before near a Moscow football stadium, a medical source told Russia's state-run Interfax news agency.
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A Georgian official dies in an apparent suicide, two days after the PM is found dead from gas poisoning.
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A Hindu priest who blessed Sri Lanka's president at the weekend is shot dead.
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A search for a missing helicopter carrying a top Orthodox leader finds wreckage and bodies.
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Most Rev. James Hickey, former archbishop of Washington who led the Roman Catholic Church in the US capital for two decades, died Sunday.