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*ca. 590 [[w:Parthenon|Parthenon]] in Athens converted into a Christian church dedicated to Aghia Sophia.
 
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=== Late Byzantine era (843-1453)===

Revision as of 08:19, December 15, 2008

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.
  • 124 Apostles Quadratus and Aristides present Christian apologies to Emperor Hadrian at Athens.
  • c.130 Apostle Quadratus, of the Seventy, reposes. [1]

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.
  • 1309 Rhodes falls to the Knights of St. John, who establish their headquarters there, renaming themselves the "Knights of Rhodes".
  • 1336 Meteora in Greece are established as a center of Orthodox monasticism.
  • 1338 Gregory Palamas writes Triads in defense of the Holy Hesychasts, defending the Orthodox practice of hesychast spirituality and the use of the Jesus Prayer.
  • 1359 Death of Gregory Palamas.
  • 1360 Death of John Koukouzelis the Hymnographer.
  • 1430 The monks of Mount Athos submit to Sultan Murad II and keep their autonomy.
  • 1453 Fall of Constantinople to invasion of the Ottoman Turks, ending the Roman Empire; Death of [[Constantine XI Palaiologos, last of the Byzantine Emperors, martyred by the Ottoman Turks.

Post-Imperial era (1453-1821)

Turkish Occupation (1456-1822)

Modern Era (1821-1850)

Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)

  • 1821 Greek War of Independance begins; martyrdom of Patriarch Gregory V.
  • 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; the holocaust of Arkadi Monastery in Crete.
  • 1871 Patriarch Gregory V returned to Athens and entombed in cathedral.
  • 1877 Death of Arsenios of Paros.
  • 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.

See also


Notes