Maximos of

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( el, Μάξιμος Καλλιπολίτης; la, Maximus Callipolites; died 1633) was a hieromonk who made the first translation of the New Testament into modern Greek after 1629. This was at the initiative of the reforming Patriarch

Cyril Lucaris Cyril Lucaris or Loukaris ( el, Κύριλλος Λούκαρις, 13 November 1572 – 27 June 1638), born Constantine Lucaris, was a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Candia, Crete (then under the Republic of Venice). He later bec ...

of Constantinople, who was later strangled. With the assistance of the Dutch ambassador to Constantinople it was printed at Geneva in 1638. Meletios Sirigos (1590–1664) vehemently opposed Maximos's translation.Ο Αγώνας για μια Αγία Γραφή στη Σύγχρονη Ελληνική
Since Patriarch Lucaris had been strangled Maximos' New Testament was hardly used, the next would-be translator of the New Testament, the monk Seraphim, was exiled to Siberia. In the 19th Century the

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assisted the monk

Neophytos Vamvas Neophytos Vamvas ( el, Νεόφυτος Βάμβας; 1770 – 9 January 1856) was a priest, philosopher, philologist, author, professor, and dean. He was the first dean of the philosophical school at the University of Athens. He is known for b ...

1776-1866 to make his translation but again it was not made available. The nationalist

Alexandros Pallis Alexandros Pallis ( el, Αλέξανδρος Πάλλης; 15 March 1851, in Piraeus – 17 March 1935, in Liverpool) was a Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek. The publication, in the '' Akro ...

' translation, in the ''Acropolis'' newspaper, caused riots in 1901 in which 8 people died. The New Testament in modern Greek was finally allowed in 1924.

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