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Metropolitan Maximos of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh has resigned for health reasons, the Greek Orthodox Archdioese of America announced today.
He is 76 and had led the Pittsburgh diocese since 1979. Born on the island of Chios, Greece, the son of a priest, he went on to become a prominent Orthodox theologian who encouraged a monastic revival in the United States. He has been in declining health since suffering a head injury in a fall six years ago.
Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit, a former chancellor of the Pittsburgh diocese, will serve as locum tenens, or temporary administrator, of the Pittsburgh diocese until a new metropolitan is elected.
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