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On March 7, 2026, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America issued a statement on the 61st anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march, which became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
On March 15, 1965, Archbishop Iakovos would travel to Selma, Alabama and march with Dr. Martin Luther King, and was the only head of a major religious body to participate in the march for equal voting rights.
“Archbishop Iakovos understood that moral courage often comes with a cost. Sometimes, when we stand for what is right, we may be criticized, rejected, or placed in danger. Yet the Gospel leaves us no room for comfortable silence. The march from Selma was an act of faith,” Archbishop Elpidophoros said.
See Archbishop Elpidophoros’s social media post here.
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