Timeline Of Eastern Orthodoxy In Greece (1924–1974)

This is a timeline of the presence of Orthodoxy in Greece from 1924 to 1974. The history of Greece traditionally encompasses the study of the Greek people, the areas they ruled historically, as well as the territory now composing the modern state of Greece.

Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935)

*1924 Constitution of the Holy Mountain agreed, ratified by the Greek State by the Legislative Decree of 10/16 September 1926;
Timeline of the History of the Greek Church
'' Anagnosis Books, Deliyianni 3, Marousi 15122, Greece. Retrieved 25 April 2013. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia formally founded; death of Arsenios of Cappadocia.
*1925 School of Theology established at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, due to the initiative taken by the government of Alexandros Papanastasiou.
*1925–1945 Emigration of less than 30,000 Greeks to the United States, many of whom were "picture brides" for single Greek men.
*1926 Proposal for Mount Athos to be turned into a condominium by Dictator Theodoros Pangalos, as part of the treaty signed on 17 August between Greece and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; the existing constitution governing the affairs of Mount Athos is passed.Treasures from Mount Athos.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
'' Hellenic Resources Network (HR-Net). Retrieved: 23 May 2013.
*1927-1954 Archim. Seraphim Papakostas (1872-1954) succeeds Archim. Eusebius Matthopoulos as head of the Zoe Brotherhood movement in Greece.
*1928 The Ecumenical Patriarchate issued a tome by which it ceded to the Church of Greece, on a temporary basis, 35 of its metropolitan dioceses in northern Greece to be administered by it.Victor Roudometof. ''Greek Orthodoxy, Territoriality, and Globality: Religious Responses and Institutional Disputes. Report.'' Sociology of Religion. Vol. 69 No. 1. 22 March 2008. Pg. 67(25). ."Codified in the 1928 Patriarchal and Synodical Act, the "New Lands" were entrusted to the temporary stewardship of the Church of Greece, provided that the Church respected the terms of the Act. The Act subsequently has been incorporated into several pieces of Greek legislation (Laws 3615/1928, 5438/1932, 599/1977, and Article 3, paragraph 1 of the current Greek Constitution), thereby recognizing the ecclesiastical agreement between the two sides."
*1930 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk officially renamed Constantinople to Istanbul, which comes from the Greek expression "eis-tin-polin" ("to the City"), based on the common Greek usage of referring to Constantinople simply as ''The City;'' a Pan-Orthodox Consultation on Mount Athos concluded that the only possible relations on the part of the Orthodox toward the Roman Catholics was ''"Relations of defense on the part of the Orthodox toward Roman Catholic Proselytism;"''Rev. Nicon D. Patrinacos. ''A Dictionary of Greek Orthodoxy - Λεξικον Ελλινικης Ορθοδοξιας.'' Light and Life Publishing, 1984. p.323. Traditionalist Greeks (Old Calendarist communities) began publishing the monthly journal ''Orthodoxos Keryx'' (''Orthodox Herald'') from 1930.

*1930-1931 Rulings of the Court of Appeal (1930) and the Supreme Court (1931) imposed a ban on Uniates in Greece from wearing the outer garments of Orthodox clergy, in order to avoid the confusion with Orthodox clergy they were seeking, however the Uniates never consistently respected this decision.

*1931 Benaki Museum opens in Athens, housing Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Neo-Hellenic ecclesiastical and national art collections.
*1932 Death of Saint Nicholas Planas.
*1933 Church of Greece bans Freemasonry, declaring that when one becomes a Mason (a member of Freemasonry) it is an act of apostasy from the Church and therefore, until that person repents, they can not attend the Holy Eucharist;
Freemasonry: Official Statement of the Church of Greece (1933)
'' Orthodox Christian Information Center. Retrieved: 24 November 2012.Gregory Zorzos – Γρηγόρης Ζώρζος.
Secret Societies at revolution era 1821 in Greece – Μυστικές Εταιρείες 1821
'' Gregory Zorzos, 2009. p.77. opening of the new Patriarchal Palace in Cairo by Patriarch Meletios, built at the expense of Theodore Kotsikas.
* 1934 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk transformed Hagia Sophia into a museum.Marangos, Frank. ''Resolving the religious freedom issue of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.'' Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table. 22 June 2007. .
*1935 Death of eminent prelate Metropolitan Germanos (Karavangelis) in Vienna, who had played a central role and was an active participant both in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia and in Pontus, and was a primary candidate for election to the Ecumenical Throne of Constantinople in 1921, and to be Archbishop of Athens in 1923, only to censured in the end by both church and state; Old Calendar schism, when three bishops declared their separation from the official Church of Greece stating that the calendar change was a schismatic act; German Biblical scholar Alfred Rahlfs published his two-volume '' Septuaginta, '' a semi-critical edition of the Greek Septuagint, being the only complete critical text of the Septuagint in existence to that date.Robert J. V. Hiebert. ''Inauguration of the John William Wevers Institute and Septuagint Chair Campaign.'' Trinity Western University. December 5, 2011. Retrieved: 25 May 2018. p. 3.

Kingdom of Greece restored (1935–1967)

*1936 Apostolic Ministry of the Church of Greece founded ( ' Apostoliki Diakonia' ); General Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece during the 4th of August Regime (1936–41), propagated a Third Hellenic Civilization (Ancient Greece and Byzantium being the first two); by 1936, Zoe Brotherhood had opened 300 catechetical schools with 35,000 pupils, and received the first prize at the International Protestant Conference on Sunday Schools in Oslo.

*1937 The Ecumenical Patriarchate chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key positions in the recently declared Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, after an agreement with the Albanian authorities, including Panteleimon (Kotokos) as Metr. of Gjirokastër, and Eulogios (Kourilas), as metropolitan of Korytsa; Mass NKVD operation against Greeks in the USSR begins, based on Joseph Stalin's Directive 50125 Dec. 1937, resulting in the loss of 38,000 Soviet citizens of Hellenic descent at the Gulags of Siberia.
*1938 Death of Silouan of Mt Athos; Chrysanthos (Philippidis) becomes the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece (1938-1941); American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese is founded, when a group of 37 Ruthenian Eastern Catholic parishes, under the leadership of Fr. Orestes Chornock were received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

*1939–49 World War II and subsequent Greek Civil War (1944–49), famine and widespread bloodshed.
*1939 The emigration of the Antiochian Greeks reaches its peak.
*1941 In occupied Athens, Abp. Chrysanthos refused to swear in the first Quisling government of Georgios Tsolakoglou appointed by the Germans.
*1943 Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupation forces, including the monks and monastery of Agia Lavra; the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews of Athens fails, thanks to the combined efforts of Abp. Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Athens, Greek resistance groups and the Greek people.
*1944 Abp. Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Athens serves as regent in an attempt to stabilise Greece (31 Dec 1944 – 28 Sep 1946).
*1946 The Civil Code of Greece (Gr
Αστικός Κώδικας
came into effect on 23 February 1946.Maria Panezi.

'' GlobaLex. March 2013.
*1947 The Dodecanese Islands are liberated but remain under the Patriarchate of Constantinople; death of Venerable Saint Savvas the New of Kalymnos.
*1949 Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the ''Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary'', and built a convent and orphanage in a poor suburb of Athens.Delia Paunescu.
''The Crown'': Princess Alice Of Battenberg’s Life Was More Dramatic Than The Show Depicts
" ELLE. APR 9, 2021.
*1950 Uncovering of the relics of St. Ephraim of Nea Makri (†1426); foundation of the Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America under the Ecumenical Patriarchate, with the episcopal ordination on 10 September in Constantinople of Mark Lipa as titular Bishop of Levka (1950-1982).
*1951 In June, the Church of Greece organized inter-orthodox events in commemoration of the 1900th anniversary of the Apostle Paul's mission to Athens; the 1500th anniversary celebration of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
*1952 The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece decided to commemorate the feast day of The Protection of the Mother of God on 28 October, rather than on the traditional date of 1 October, thus coinciding with Ohi Day in Greece; new monastery of Panagia Soumela built in the village of Kastania, in Macedonia, Greece, housing the wonder-working icon of Panagia Soumela, becoming a center of religious pilgrimage; Ecumenical Patr. Athenagoras I (Spyrou) officially visited, for the first time in the last one thousand years, the Papal representative in Constantinople, who returned the visit.
*1953 The Athonite School was officially re-established in Mount Athos, now named the '
Athonite Ecclesiastical Academy
'', occupying a wing of the Skete of St. Andrew in Karyes, following the Greek secondary school curriculum combined with ecclesiastical education.
*1955 Istanbul Pogrom: In September an organised mob was turned against the ethnic Greek community and the Ecumenical Patriarchate in an orchestrated pogrom, destroying 73 churches, 1,004 residences, 5,000 small- and medium-sized businesses, two cemeteries, 23 schools and 5 athletic centres; the number of ethnic Greeks who were forced to leave Turkey by 1960 as a result of these events is estimated at around 9,000; Glorification of Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain (†1809) by the Patriarchate of Constantinople;Basil (Essey), Bishop of Wichita.
Exomologetarion (A Manual of Confession)
'' Orthodox Christian Information Centre. 14 July 2005. Retrieved: 29 July 2013. the small Greek community in Venice devoted its resources and works of post-Byzantine art to founding the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies (Istituto Ellenico) on the site of the former Flanginian School, established by law in 1951 and starting its activity in 1955.
*1956 Death of prominent theologian Gregorios Papamichael, professor at the University of Athens, who was responsible for resurrecting two almost forgotten great personalities of Orthodoxy: Gregorios Palamas and Maximos (Trivolis) the Greek, and who furthermore examined diligently various cultural aspects of church life;Panagiotes K. Christou.
Neohellenic Theology at the Crossroads
'' ''The Greek Orthodox Theological Review''. 28, n. 1, Spring 1983, p. 39-54. Dr. Constantine Cavarnos founds th
Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
in Belmont, Massachusetts; prominent theologian Nikos Nissiotis (1926–86) defended his doctoral dissertation ''Existentialism and the Christian Faith'', being the first time that a Greek confronted the problems raised by Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger and Sartre in the light of living Orthodox theological thought.Christos Yannaras. ''Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity in the Modern Age.'' Transl. Peter Chamberas and Norman Russell. Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2006. p. 281.

*1957 Death of Blessed Elder Jeronymo (Ieronimos) abbot of Simonopetra. Greek-American priest John Romanides publishes his doctoral dissertation ''The Ancestral Sin'' with the approval of the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens, representing a classic, landmark work in the theological revolution of the 1960s that set an unimpeachable standard of Orthodoxy.
*1958 Pope John XXIII and Ecumenical Patr. Athenagoras I (Spyrou) exchanged formal letters calling for peace among the Christian churches.

*1959 Death of Blessed Elder Joseph (Spilaiotis) the Hesychast; death of Venerable Elder and New Confessor George (Karslidis) of Drama; the Zoe Brotherhood edition of the New Testament had sold over 650,000 copies by 1959; Hieromonk Augoustinos Kantiotes founds the Society of Theologians ''"The Cross" ("O Stavros")'' , which assumed the form of a brotherhood in 1966; Abp. Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania establishes inter-Orthodox mission agency ''Porefthentes (Go Ye)'' to revive the church's mission activities.
*1960 Death of Venerable Saint Anthimos of Chios; death of Archimandrite Iakovos Valodimos of Monodendri, Ioannina (1870-1960), ascetic and confessor.
*1961 Glorification of Nektarios of Pentapolis (†1920);Great Synaxaristes :
Ὁ Ἅγιος Νεκτάριος Μητροπολίτης Πενταπόλεως Αἰγύπτου
'' 9 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. first ever visit of a Greek Orthodox Patriarch to Canada, as Patr. Benedict I of Jerusalem begins a North-American tour to raise funds for the restoration of the shrines in the Holy Land; Greek language ultraconservative ecclesiastical newspaper ''Orthodoxos Typos'' (''Orthodox Press'') is founded by Archimandrite Charalambos Vasilopoulos (1910–1982);Stavros Zoumboulakis. "The Orthodox Church in Greece Today." In: Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas and Hara Kouki (Eds.). ''The Greek Crisis and European Modernity.'' Palgrave Macmillan, August 2013. Page 148. death of Metr. Eulogios (Kourilas) of Korytsa (Korçë), one of the leaders of the Northern Epirus movement.
*1962 Foundation of Monastery of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, in Oinousses ( Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Oinouses).
*1962–68 The 12-Volume ''"Religious and Ethical Encyclopedia"'' ('' Θρησκευτική και Ηθική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια'', ''ΘΗΕ'') is compiled as a joint effort between academics, university scholars and other contributors, published by the Athanasios Martinos publishing house, Athens.
*1963 Soter Brotherhood is created, as the more traditionalist members broke away from the Zoe Brotherhood to form a smaller new brotherhood under the leadership of Prof. Panagiotes N. Trembelas, having a profound influence on the Church of Greece;CNEWA Canada (Catholic Near East Welfare Association).
The Orthodox Church of Greece
'' Last Modified: 26 June 2008. Retrieved: 1 May 2013. Second Pan-Orthodox Conference held in Rhodes;
Towards the "Eighth" Ecumenical Council
'' Orthodox Christian Information Center. (From: ''The Orthodox Word'', Nov.-Dec. 1976 (71), 184–195). Retrieved: 1 May 2013. 1000th anniversary celebration of founding of Mount Athos; Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos founds the Orthodox missionary society "The Friends of Uganda", known today as the "Orthodox Missionary Fraternity" (Αδελφότητα Ορθοδόξου Εξωτερικής Ιεραποστολής).
*1964 The skull of St. Andrew the Apostle, the martyred Patron Saint of Greece, was returned to the Greek Orthodox Church as a gesture of Church unity by Pope Paul VI;
St. Andrew Skull: Relic Returned to Greece
'' Catholic Herald. Friday 2 October 1964. Page 9. death of Nicephorus the Leper; Panagia Malevi icon of the Mother of God begins gushing myrrh, at the Malevi Monastery, at Agios Petros, Arcadia; Third Pan-Orthodox Conference held in Rhodes; in March, Turkey denounced the 1930 bilateral agreement on disputes arising from the exchange of populations and expelled more than 17,000 ethnic Greeks, who were deprived of all access to their real estate, goods and chattels, subsequently followed by the de facto exodus of 40,000 ethnic Greeks of Turkish citizenship.
*1965 Death of icon painter Photios Kontoglou, who was a strong influence in the reintroduction of traditional Byzantine and postbyzantine style in church icon painting; first Metropolitan for Piraeus is elected, Chrysostomos (Tabladorakis) of Argolidos; Monastery of Panagia Pantanassa (Kranidiou) founded; Pope Paul VI of Rome and Patr. Athenagoras I (Spyrou) of Constantinople mutually nullify the excommunications of 1054; translation of the Holy Relics of Venerable Sabbas the Sanctified from the church of Sant'Antonin, Venice, back to the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified, preceded by consultations between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem;
Περί της επανακομιδής του ιερού λειψάνου του αγίου Σάββα
'' Impankratoros.gr (Holy Monastery of Pantokratoros, Melisohori). Retrieved: 12 August 2015. Professor John Karmiris wrote about the Vatican’s plan to promote the union of the Orthodox and Papist, stating: ''"Pope Paul VI and his circle of Papist theologians worked out a well-researched and broad program of Rome-centered Ecumenism, in agreement with Latin Ecclesiology."'' Andrew of Dryinoupolis, Pogoniani and Konitsa, and, Seraphim of Piraeus and Faliro.
A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy
'' HOLY AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GREECE (THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF DRYINOUPOLIS, POGONIANI AND KONITSA, and, THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF PIRAEUS AND FALIRO). 10 April 2014. p. 35.
:* citing: ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΑΡΜΙΡΗΣ, ''Ὀρθοδοξία καί Ρωμαιοκαθολικισμός,'' vol. ΙΙ, Ἀθήναι 1965, p. 170. the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies is established in Thessaloniki, located at the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of Vlatadon (Moni Vlatadon).

*1966 Professor Panagiotes K. Chrestou becomes the first director of the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies (1966-1989), justly regarded as the leading Greek Patrologist of the 20th century; death of Ieronymos (Apostolides) of Aegina; Center for Byzantine Research established at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; translation of the sacred relics of the Holy Apostle Titus of Crete, from Venice (which had taken them in 1669), back to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Crete; Greek–American academic and professor C. A. Patrides publishes ''Milton and the Christian Tradition'', a classic study of John Milton's Christian theology.L. R. N. Ashley. ''"Milton and the Christian Tradition by C. A. Patrides."'' Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance. T. 29, No. 2 (1967), pp. 495-497.
*1966–1980 About 160,000 Greeks emigrated to the USA.C. Moskos. ''"The Greeks in the United States."'' In: R. Clogg (cd.). The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. p.105.
*1967 Glorification of Arsenios of Paros (†1877) by the Patriarchate of Constantinople; professor C. A. Patrides surveyed the history of apocatastasis in his ''Salvation of Satan.''

Military dictatorship (1967–1974)

*1967 The military junta which seized power in Greece on 21 April, adopted a new law which dismissed the twelve bishops of the Synod, the executive body of the sixty-seven member Assembly of Bishops, reduced the membership of the Synod to nine, and provided that the government, rather than the Assembly of Bishops, would elect the members of the Synod;R. T. M. ''"NOTES ON CHURCH-STATE AFFAIRS".'' Journal of Church and State, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn 1967), pp. 417-428. p. 419. on 13 May, eight members of the handpicked Aristindin Synod choose three candidates for the election of the Archbishop of Athens, of whom two, the Metropolitans of Patras and of Trikki, waived their candidacy in favour of the third, Archimandrite Ieronymos Kotsonis, who became the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece (1967–1973);Julian Walter, A.A.
Renewal in Orthodox Greece
'' The Tablet: The International Catholic News Weekly. 4 November 1967. p. 7. on 1, 20 June and 22 the Aristindin Synod met to propose candidates for thirteen vacant sees, with most of the new bishops being sympathetically disposed towards the Zoe and Sotir Brotherhoods; Hieromonk Augoustinos Kantiotes elected Metropolitan of Florina, Prespai and Eordaia (1967-2000).
*1968 Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC) founded by the Archdiocese of Crete, near the Moni Gonia Monastery. the Pope removed from the Calendar of Saints the Great-Martyr St. George the Trophy-bearer and erased thirty other Saints with him, including Saint Nicholas, Saint Christopher, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine, being among the chief Saints of Orthodoxy.
*1970 Death of Elder Amphilochios (Makris) of Patmos.

* 1970–1971 In his survey of relics in the Greek Orthodox Church, German scholar Dr. Otto Meinardus found evidence for 3602 relics, out of approximately 3800 saints who were liturgically recognized by the end of the Ottoman period (1922).John Anthony McGuckin.
The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set
'' John Wiley & Sons, 2010. p. 467.
*1971 Halki Seminary, Orthodoxy's most prominent theological school, is closed by Turkish authorities breaching Article 40 of the Lausanne Treaty and Article 24 of the Turkish Constitution which both guarantee religious freedom and education; Abp. Makarios III (Mouskos) of Cyprus baptizes more than 5,000 into the Orthodox Church in Kenya, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe; the island of Tinos is proclaimed sacred by an act of parliament in 1971;Helena Smith. ''VISIONS OF THE VIRGIN FILL GREEK SKIES.'' The Guardian (London). 17 August 1992. p.7.Evy Johanne Haland. ''From the Ritual Year of the Miraculous Icon on the Greek Island of Tinos to the Wider Mediterranean.'' Comparative Civilizations Review. No. 63, Fall 2010. p.19. the Church of Greece designated Pelagia of Tinos (†1834) a saint on 11 September.
*1972–1973 Ecclesiastical coup in Cyprus fails to remove Abp. Makarios III from the Presidency.
*1972 Death of missionary Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, having laboured to spread the Orthodox faith in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Congo;Fr. Alexander Veronis ( OCMC).
Orthodox Concepts of Evangelism and Mission
'' In: Paul Wesley Chilcote, & Laceye C. Warner (Eds.). The Study of Evangelism: Exploring a Missional Practice of the Church. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008. pp.279–294. on 28 November, the Church of Greece reaffirmed its 1933 ban on Freemasonry, declaring and proclaiming that Freemasonry is a proven mystery religion.
*1973 On 18 January the Synodal-Stavropegial Monastery of Panagia Chrysopigi («Παναγία η Χρυσοπηγή») is founded in Kapandriti, in the periphery of the Archdiocese of Athens, via a royal edict signed by Abp. Ieronimos Kotsonis of Athens; in Athens on Christmas 1973, an association called the "Theologians for Freedom and Dignity" published the document ''"Theological Declaration on Freedom and Dignity for Greek People from Greek Orthodox Theologians",'' denouncing the dictatorship in Greece.
*1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish forces advance capturing the 37% of the island, 3,000 are killed or missing, 200,000 become refugees;Paul Hamilos.
Cyprus
'' The Guardian. 16 January 2002. Retrieved 2008-11-23. the Monarchy is voted out by a plebiscite vote of 69%.

See also

*Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece
* List of archbishops of Athens
* Greek Orthodox Church
* Eastern Orthodox Church organization
History
* History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
*History of Eastern Christianity
*History of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Ottoman Empire
*History of Eastern Orthodox Churches in the 20th century
*Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in America
Church Fathers
* Apostolic Fathers
*Church Fathers
*''Ante-Nicene Fathers (book)''
* Desert Fathers
*'' Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers''
*List of Church Fathers

Notes

References

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