Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson takes a deep dive into post WW1 politics and Church history regarding Turkey and the Balkans
In the 1920s, relations between Greeks and Turks became even more tense than usual. After World War I (if not before), the patriarchate of the Second Rome saw most of its territories removed from it.
Making matters worse, the forcible expulsion of all Greeks from Turkey and massacres of Greeks by the Young Turks, left the church in Istanbul alone.
This was also the time the Patriarchate began promoting itself as the “leader of all Orthodoxy.” In this lecture, the mechanics of the demise of this patriarchate are laid out given the politics of the day.
Presented by Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson
The Orthodox Nationalist: Decline of the Constantinople Patriarch - TON 121025
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