Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to advise my colleagues that the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Newburyport. MA. will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of Its founding on May 24. For background. the Greek Orthodox community of Newburyport was chartered on February 14. 1917. The Greek immigrants who settled in Newburyport formed the Hellenic Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Sunday. December 8. 1918. Their initial meeting was held at Malta Hall on State Street. but they did not have their own building. nor did they have a fulltime priest. They began meetIng at the chapel of St.
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