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| Keywords: Meletios Metaksakis and Cosmo Gordon Lang.jpg en In the photo Patriarch Meletios of Alexandria meets with the Anglican Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang of Canterbury 8 July 1930 Note the double headed eagle This is not wrong for him to wear but it is very unusual that a church leader would do so Generally they wear a cross an ikon religious picture or both The double headed eagle is a legitimate symbol sometimes used in Orthodoxy because it was the symbol of the Byzantine Empire the state that most strongly fostered Greek Orthodoxy The state and the church were particularly close 1930-7-8 http //anglicanhistory org/orthodoxy/meletios_lang jpg не указано other versions Custom license marker 2016 04 06 PD-old Meletius Metaxakis Cosmo Lang | ||||
