On September 11, 2004, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Petros, Died in a Plane Crash.

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On September 11, 2004, Patriarch Petros of Alexandria died in a helicopter crash in northern Greece. Patriarch Petros of Alexandria was on board the plane along with 11 other church officials and five crew members. He was the spiritual shepherd of the 300,000-strong Christian Orthodox community in Africa. The Chinook helicopter, flying to a monastery on Mount Athos, disappeared from radar screens about 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of Cape Akra…