His Holiness Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, has commended a movement for the adoption of the western Gregorian calendar for all civil purposes, and the kingdom of Greece has just instituted this notable reform, according to Greek papers from Constantinople, Alexandria and Athens. Strangely enough, Patriarch Meletios is willing that the Church remain behind the State in this matter, for he still recommends the Julian calendar for ecclesiastical purposes. (The All Russian Church Council has just adopted the Gregorian calendar of the west.) There is now a difference of 13 days...
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