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*Walker, W., (Norris, Lotz, and Handy), A History of the Christian Church, 4th edition, New York, NY 1985.==Further Reading==*RuncimanMilton, SGiles., ''Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Great Church in Captivity, Cambridge, UK 2001Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance''. *Mango, CHodder & Stoughton Ltd., The Oxford History of ByznatiumLondon, Oxford, NY 20022008.(ISBN 978 0 340 96234 3)
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*Probably the most mind-boggling changes to occur though in the Church during these 400 years of Moslem occupation was the growth of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Greek nationalism focused itself in the Church, its only real vehicle of power. Even in the face of constant struggle at home in Constantinople and the agony of their faithful the Patriarchs of Constantinople waged a war for power in the Church and won. The patriarchs, throughout these centuries systematically subdued all the Slavic churches which had previously been autocephalic, and the patriarchates of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria, where Orthodox Arabs all but making them Greek, and systematically eliminating in them any memory of their independent past.
==Works and References==*Hussey, J. M., ''The Byzantine World, ''. London, England 1961.*Walker, W. ''A History of the Christian Church''. 4th ed., New York, NY, 1985.*Runciman, S. ''The Great Church in Captivity''. Cambridge, UK, 2001.*Mango, C. ''The Oxford History of Byzantium''. Oxford, NY, 2002.
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