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MOST HOLY ARCHBISHOP AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH, NEOPHYTOS VIII. IN 1858 HE BECAME A TEACHER OF THEOLOGY. A FEW YEARS LATER HE WENT TO GERMANY AND CONTINUED HIS STUDIES UNDER DOLLINGER AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORS. HE WAS ELECTED BISHOP IN 1867 AND ASCENDED THE PATRIARCHAL THRONE NOV. 14, 189I. HE LATELY CONCLUDED A CHARGE TO A NEWLY APPOINTED PREACHER WITH THESE WORDS: " IF YOU HAVE SUCCESS IN YOUR WORK OF PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND SAVE MEN, YOUR WOKK WILL BE GREATER THAN THAT OF PATRIARCH."
