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Canonisation – Official Documents |
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Preface by the Author to the English Edition |
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Preface by the Author to the Greek Edition |
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1 Life of our Father among the Saints Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa, Pella and Almopia |
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Brief Biographical Note |
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From Being in God’s Image to Being in His Likeness |
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Birth, Ecclesiastical Formation and Studies |
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Military Service in the LOK |
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Entering the Priesthood |
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His Episcopal Ministry |
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Hierarch of the Church |
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His Illness and Saintly Death |
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‘Standard-Bearer Saint’ |
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Sanctity: the Goal of Human Beings |
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Saintly Bishops |
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2 Metropolitan Kallinikos of Edessa: A ‘Saintly Figure’ |
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Foreword by His Eminence Metropolitan Joel of Edessa, Pella and Almopia |
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Opening Remarks |
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Family Environment |
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Infancy and Childhood |
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Student at Theological School |
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Beginning his Ministry in the Church |
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His Military Service |
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Returning to Ministry in the Church |
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Ordination to the Diaconate and the Priesthood |
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Relationship with Metropolitan Hierotheos |
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The Interregnum and the Election of the New Metropolitan |
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His Election as Metropolitan of Edessa |
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His Pastoral Ministry as Metropolitan |
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a) Finding Assistants |
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b) Training Parish Priests |
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c) Ordination of New Members of the Clergy |
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d) Travels round his Metropolis |
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e) Visits by Confessors to the Villages |
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f) Building and Refurbishing Churches |
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g) Buildings and Institutions |
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h) Monasteries |
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i) His Ministry in the Office |
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j) Visits to Schools |
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k) Meetings to Study Holy Scripture |
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l) Organising Charitable Work |
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m) Visits to Hospitals |
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n) Visits to the Army |
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o) President of Foundations |
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p) Visits to People at Home |
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q) Love for Saints |
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r) His Sermons |
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s) His Letters |
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His Orthodox and Ecclesiastical Way of Thinking |
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a) From Encyclicals for the New Year |
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b) From Encyclicals for Christmas |
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c) From Encyclicals for Easter |
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His Links with the Holy Mountain |
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His Sermons |
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a) Sermon at an Ordination to the Priesthood |
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b) The Value of Monasticism |
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c) Sermon at a Funeral |
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d) The Soul’s Garment |
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Difficulties in his Pastoral Ministry |
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His Illness and Death |
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a) Chronicle of his Illness and Death |
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b) Facing his Illness |
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c) Death and Funeral |
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His Will |
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a) Analysis of the Contents of his Will |
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b) Text of his Will |
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Typical Tributes and Opinions |
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a) Tributes after his Death |
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b) After the Publication of the Book Kosmima tis Ekklisias [Ornament of the Church] |
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Living Presence |
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a) His Regenerating Words |
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b) Healing the Possessed |
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c) ‘Confession’ of a Demon, or Testimony of Metropolitan Iakovos of Argolis |
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d) Various ‘Signs’ |
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e) Popular Conviction of the Sainthood of Kallinikos |
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f) The People Invoke him |
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Man of God |
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Photographs |