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Although a personal friend to clerics of many faiths, Spellman was, at best, a reluctant ecumenist.

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Unlike the retired Chrysostomos, the new primate is an active ecumenist who has been a delegate for the church of Greece at several interfaith councils.

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St. John's is "a holy place for the whole city," explains the Houston-born, Harvard-educated ecumenist.

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The "urbanologist" aspires to be a student of the entire city, an ecumenist of the metropolis, whose concerns go beyond brick and mortar to budgets and laws, souls and sensibilities.

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But the scarred sectarian history of Britain is enough to give pause to the most optimistic ecumenist.

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