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English: Flag used by the Greek Orthodox Church, in use since ca. the 1980s. Also it is the flag of Mount Athos [ 1 ] Literature: The Flag Bulletin 27. Flag Research Center. 1988. p. 105.
Flag of the Greek Orthodox Church Double-headed eagle emblem of John VIII Palaiologos (r. 1425–1448). The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Mount Athos, and also the Greek Orthodox Churches in the diaspora under the Patriarchate use a black double-headed eagle in a yellow field as their flag or emblem.
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In 1912, Ismail Qemali raised a similar version of that flag. The flag has gone through many alterations, until 1992 when the current flag of Albania was introduced. The double-headed eagle is now used as an emblem by a number of Orthodox Christian churches, including the Greek Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania.
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