Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece

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


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Apostolic era (100-325)

  • c.47-48 Apostle Paul's mission to Cyprus.
  • c.49 Paul's mission to Philippi, Thessaloniki and Veria.
  • 49 Paul's mission to Athens.
  • c.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
  • c.54 Paul writes his First Epistle to the Corinthians.
  • c.55 Paul revisits Corinth.
  • c.56 Paul revisits Macedonia; he writes his Second Epistle to the Corinthians.
  • c.61 Paul shipwrecked in Crete.
  • c.95 Apocalypse of John written on the island of Patmos.
  • c.96 Dionysius the Areopagite, of the Seventy, martyred.
  • Apostle Quadratus, of the Seventy, reposes.

Under Patriarch of Constantinople Era (100-1850)

Byzantine era (451-843)

Late Byzantine era (843-1453)

Latin Occupation (1204-1456)

  • 1204 Latin Occupation
  • 1275 26 martyrs of Zographou monastery on Mt. Athos, martyred by the Latins.
  • 1359 Gregory Palamas reposes in captivity.
  • 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.
  • 1462 Wonderworking icon of the Archangel Michael of Mantamados is created after the Byzantine monastery of the Taxiarchis (Archangel) Michael is destroyed by invading Ottoman Turks and all the monks are slaughtered; the sole surviving novice-monk credited his salvation to a miracle of the Archangel and made the icon, in relief, using clay earth mixed with in with the blood of his slain brothers; Matrona of Chios reposes October 22.
  • 1463 Raphael, Nicholas and Irene martyred.
  • 1589 Philothei of Athens martyred.
  • 1622, December 17: Dionysius of Zakynthos reposes.
  • 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.
  • 1809 Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain reposes.

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)

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)

Post-Communist era (1991-Present)

Notes

  • Some of these dates are necessarily a bit vague, as records for some periods are particularly difficult to piece together accurately.
  • The division of Church History into separate eras as we do here will always be to some extent arbitrary, though we have tried to group periods according to major watershed events.
  • This timeline is necessarily biased toward the history of the Orthodox Church, though a number of non-Orthodox events are mentioned for their importance in history related to Orthodoxy.

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