Metropolitan Maximos Aghiorgoussis of Pittsburgh (GOAA/EP) (1935- ), former professor at Christ the Saviour Seminary, Johnstown PA… I knew that he had crank health when he didn’t show for Metropolitan Nicholas’ funeral in March…
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Today, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announced that Metropolitan Maximos Aghiorgoussis of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh resigned for health reasons; the 76-year-old bishop has led the Pittsburgh diocese since 1979. Metropolitan Maximos was the son of a priest, born on the island of Chios in Greece; he went on to become a prominent Orthodox theologian, encouraging a monastic revival in the United States. After suffering a head injury in a fall six years ago, his health has deteriorated. Metropolitan Nicholas Pissare of Detroit, a former chancellor of the Pittsburgh diocese, will serve as locum tenens, or temporary administrator, of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh until the election of a new metropolitan.
2 September 2011
Ann Rodgers
Pittsburgh Post-Dispatch
http://m.post-gazette.com/local/breaking/metropolitan-maximos-stepping-down-from-post-1171674
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