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Serbian Orthodox patriarch dead at 95
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Patriarch Pavle I, the leader of the 8-million member Orthodox Church of Serbia, has died at the age of 95. A critic of the government of Slobodan Milosevic and of Kosovo’s recent independence from Serbia, Patriarch Pavle was named a bishop in 1957 and elected patriarch in 1990. The Serbian government has announced three days of national mourning.
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