Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece

This is a timeline regarding the presence of Orthodoxy in Greece.

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Apostolic era (100-325)

• ca.47-48 Apostle Paul's mission to Cyprus.
• ca.49 Paul's mission to Philippi, Thessaloniki and Veria.
• 49 Paul's mission to Athens.
• ca.51-52 Metropolis of Korinthos founded in its Apostolic form (Paul's first mission to Corinth); Paul writes his two Epistles to the Thessalonians are written in
• ca.54 Paul writes his First Epistle to the Corinthians.
• ca.55 Paul revisits Corinth.
• ca.56 Paul revisits Macedonia; he writes his Second Epistle to the Corinthians.
• ca.61 Paul shipwrecked in Crete.
• ca.95 Apocalypse of John written on the island of Patmos.

Under Patriarch of Constantinople Era (100-1850)

Byzantine era (451-843)

• ca.431 Church of Cyprus autocephalous.
• 780 Metropolitan Gregory I

Late Byzantine era (843-1453)

• 860 St. Cyril and Methodius of Thessaloniki mission to the Slavs.

Latin Occupation (1204-1456)

• 1204 Latin Occupation
• 1430 The monks of Mount Athos submit to Sultan Murad II and keep their autonomy.
• 1453 Fall of Constantinople to the Turks.

Post-Imperial era (1453-1821)

Turkish Occupation (1456-1822)

• 1456 Turkish Occupation of Greece
• 1677 Bishop Henry Compton of London builds church for the Greeks in London.
• 1682 Greek church in London closed.
• 1753 School founded on Mount Athos.
• 1759 School on Mount Athos forced to close down.

Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)

• 1821 Greek War of Independance begins; martyrdom of Patriarch Gregory V.

Modern Era (1821-1850)

• 1828 Greek church opened in Londing (second time).

First Hellenic republic (1829-1832)

• 1829 First Hellenic republic (1829-1832)

Kingdom of Greece (1833-1924)

• 1833 The National Assembly at Nauplio declares the Church of Greece as independant from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
• 1834 Suppression of many monasteries in this new era.

Autocephalous Era (1850-Present)

Modern Era (1850-1917)

• 1850 autocephaly of the Church of Greece recognised by Patriarch Anthimos IV of Constantinople; certain conditions issued in "Tomos" decree; as a result the Greek National Church must maintain special links to the "Mother Church".
• 1866 Greek church takes the diocese of the Ionian Islands from Constantinople.
• 1871 Patriarch Gregory V returned to Athens and entombed in cathedral.
• 1881 Thessaly and part of Epirus added to the Church of Greece.
• 1901 Publication of Gospels in modern Greek. Riots ensue and publications are withdrawn from circulation.
• 1912 Epirus, Macedonia and eastern islands, from Northern territories of Greece, are liberated and come under the administration of the Greek Church.
• 1917 Hierarchy of the Greek Church changed in accordance with political control of the country of Greece.

Communist era (1917-1991)

• 1920 St. Nectarios of Aegina reposes.
• 1922 Metropolis of Aitolia and Akarnania founded in its modern form.
• 1923 Treaty of Lausanne hands over contrl of the Holy Mountain to Greece.
• 1924 Constitution of the Holy Mountain agreed; Greek government adopts new calendar; Old Calendarist Schism.
• 1926 Proposal for Mount Athos to be turned into a Casino by Pangalos.
• 1945, October 17: Archbishop Damaskinos serves as regent in an attempt to stabilise Greece.
• 1947 The Dodecanese Islands are liberated but remain under the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
• 1953 School of Theology on Mount Athos reopened.
• 1959 Blessed Elder Joseph (Spilaiotis) the Hesychast reposes.
• 1965 First Metropolitan for Piraeus is elected, His Emminence Chrysostomos (Tabladorakis) of Argolidos.
• 1970 Amphilochios (Makris) reposes.
• 1975 Papa-Dimitris (Gagastathis) reposes.
• 1980 Philotheos (Zervakos) reposes.
• 1983 Elder Arsenios the cave-dweller of Mt. Athos reposes.
• 1988 Radio Station "Church of Piraeus 91.2 FM." begins transmitting in October.

Post-Communist era (1991-Present)

• 1991, February 7: Elder Porphyrios the Kapsokalivite, [Evangelos (Bairaktaris)], reposes.
• 1992 Gabrielia (Papayannis) reposes.
• 1994, July 12: Elder Paisios the Athonite reposes.
• 1998, February: Monk Ephraim of Katounakia reposes.
• 2000 Greek church campaigns against omission of compulsory reference to religious affiliation on identity cards.
• 2008 Archbishop Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens reposes; Archbishop Ieronymos II (Liapis) of Athens succeeds him.