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George E. Demacopoulos is the Father John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. Along with Aristotle Papanikolaou, he co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies and the author of four monographs, the most recent being Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade.

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George Demacopolous

Father John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. Co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham. Co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies. Author of four monographs.

The Wheel #17/18. Jew and Greek. Spring/Summer 2019

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, the Nation-State, and the Specter of Byzantium

While it is customary for Orthodox Christians to look to canonical legislation when they seek to evaluate the challenges of the contemporary world, it is rarely the case that inquirers properly account for the full context or Sitz im Leben of the canons.

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