== Autocephalous Era (1850-Present) ==
[[Image:Greece 1832-1947.JPG|right|thumb|220px|The expansion of Greece from 1832 to 1947, showing territories awarded to Greece in 1919 but lost in 1923.]]
*1850 Endemousa Synod in Constantinople presided over by by Patriarch Anthimos IV of [[Constantinople]] recognised [[Autocephaly]] of the [[Church of Greece]]; due to certain conditions issued in the "Tomos" decree, the Greek National Church must maintain special links to the "Mother Church".
*1856 Death of [[Neophytus Vamvas]], Greek cleric and educator who had translated the Bible into [[w:Modern Greek|Modern Greek]].
*1863 George I enthroned as King of Greece.
*1864 First Orthodox parish established on American soil in New Orleans, Louisiana, by Greeks.
*1866 Greek church takes the diocese of the Ionian Islands from Constantinople; beginning of the [[w:Cretan Revolt (1866–1869)|Great Cretan Revolution]] (1866-1869); the [http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Arkadi holocaust of Arkadi Monastery] in Crete.
*1871 Body of Patriarch Gregory V returned to Athens and entombed in cathedral.
*1877 Death of [[Arsenios of Paros]] ([[August 18]]).
*1878 Council of Athens, convened and presided over by Metropolitan Procopius I of Athens, condemned the Makrakists, obtaining closure of [[Apostolos Makrakis|Makakris]]' ''"School of the Logos"'' on the pretext that it taught doctrines opposed to the tenets of the Church, and addressed an encyclical to the whole body of Christians in Greece that was read in the churches, charging Makrakis with attempting to introduce innovations.
*1878 Cyprus is ceded to Britain by Ottoman Empire at the [[w:Congress of Berlin|Congress of Berlin]].
*1881 Turks cede Thessali and Arta regions to Greece; Thessaly and part of Epirus added to the [[Church of Greece]].
*1882 During the Patriarchate of Joachim III, the ''[http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Great_School_of_the_Nation Great School of the Nation]'' was housed in a new large building in the area of the Phanar.
*1888 Death of [[Panagis of Lixouri]] (Cephalonia); ''[[Typikon]] of the Great Church of Christ'' is published with revised church services, prepared by Protopsaltis George Violakis, issued with the approval and blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch, while the ''Sabaite (monastic) [[Typikon]]'' continues to be used in Russia ''(i.e. from 1682-1888 the Greek and Russian Churches had shared a common [[Typikon]]).''
*1890-1917 Emigration of 450,000 Greeks to the United States, many as hired labor for the railroads and mines of the American West.
*1885 Prominent Greek painter [[w:Nicholaos Gysis|Nicholaos Gysis]] paints the famous "[[w:Krifo scholio|Secret school]]" ("κρυφό σχολειό"), refering to the underground schools provided by the [[Church of Constantinople|Greek Orthodox Church]] in monasteries and churches during the time of Ottoman rule in Greece (15th-19th c.) for keeping alive Orthodox Christian doctrines and Greek language and literacy.
*1897 [[w:Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War]].
*1901 [[Evangelakia Events (Athens, 1901)|"Evangelakia" riots]] in Athens Greece in November, over translations of [[New Testament]] into [[w:Dimotiki|Demotic (Modern) Greek]], resulting in fall of both government and Metropolitan of Athens, and withdrawal of publications from circulation.
*1902 [[Church of Greece]] takes responsibility for Greek Orthodox parishes in Australasia from the [[Church of Jerusalem]].
*1904 [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] publishes the [http://kainh.homestead.com/files/noteptxt.pdf "Patriarchal" Text of the Greek New Testament], based on about twenty Byzantine manuscripts, the standard text of the Greek-speaking Orthodox churches today.
*1905 Death of [[Apostolos Makrakis]].
*1907 Archim. [[Eusebius Matthopoulos]] founds [[Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe|Zoe Brotherhood]].
*1908 Death of [[Methodia of Kimolos]]; jurisdiction of [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] and the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]] was given to the [[Church of Greece]] under an agreement made between the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] and the Holy Synod of Athens (until 1922 in America; until 1924 in Australia).
*1912 Epirus, Macedonia and eastern islands, from Northern territories of Greece, are liberated and come under the administration of the Greek Church.
*1912-13 First and Second Balkan Wars; liberation of Thessaloniki from the Turks.
*1913-14 Greeks anex Crete, Chios and [[Metropolis of Mytiline|Mytiline]], World War I.
*1914 According to the Corfu Protocol [[w:Northern Epirus|Northern Epirus]] is granted autonomy within Albania; [[w:Byzantine & Christian Museum|Byzantine & Christian Museum]] is founded in Athens, becoming one of the most important museums in the world in Byzantine Art.
*1917 Hierarchy of the Greek Church changed in accordance with political control of the country.
*1918-24 Emigration of 70,000 Greeks to the United States.
*1919-22 [[w:Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War]]; a million refugees flee to Greece joining half a million Greeks who had fled earlier; [[w:Greek Genocide|Greek Genocide]] eliminates the Christian population of Trebizond and Anatolia.
*1920 Death of [[Nektarios of Pentapolis]] (Aegina); Chryssanthos, Bp. of Trebizond is condemned to death in absentio by a Court Martial in Ankara; Dodecanese Islands ceded to Greece by Italy; publication of Encyclical Letters by Constantinople on Christian unity and on the Ecumenical Movement; [[w:Treaty of Sèvres|Treaty of Sèvres]] cedes Eastern Thrace and Ionia (Zone of Smyrna) to Greece, but is superceded in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne by which these areas were again lost.
*1921 [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] formed.
*1922 [[Metropolis of Aitolia and Akarnania]] founded in its modern form; death of [[Ethnomartyr]] Metropolitan [[Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna]], lynched by a Turkish mob incited by Nureddin Pasha on Sunday [[September 10]]; Greek troops advancing on Constantinople are routed by Turks; the predominatly Orthodox Christian city of [[w:Great Fire of Smyrna|Smyrna is destroyed]], ending 1900 years of Christian civilization; Patriarch [[Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople|Meletios IV]] transferred the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]] from the [[Church of Greece]] back to the jurisdiction of the [[Church of Constantinople]].
*1923 Exchange of Christian and Moslem population between Greece and Turkey; [[w:Treaty of Lausanne|Treaty of Lausanne]] affirmed the international status of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]], with Turkey guaranteeing respect and the Patriarchate’s full protection, also granting control of the [[Mount Athos|Holy Mountain]] to Greece; Patriarch ceases to be regarded as head of the Christian Orthodox Millet in Turkey; Patriarch [[Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople|Meletios Metaxakis]] promulgates reformed calendar.
*1924 [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]] founded; death of [[Arsenios the Cappadocian]].
=== Second Hellenic Republic (1924-1935) ===
*1924 Death of [[Arsenios of Cappadocia]]; Constitution of the [[Mount Athos|Holy Mountain]] agreed; Greek government adopts new calendar.
*1925 School of Theology established at the ''[http://www.auth.gr/univ/faculties/contents/theosch_en.html Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]''.
*1925-45 Emigration of less than 30,000 Greeks to the United States, many of whom were "picture brides" for single Greek men.
*1926 Proposal for [[Mount Athos]] to be turned into a Casino by Dictator Pangalos.
*1928 The Ecumenical Patriarchate issued a tome by which it ceded to the [[Church of Greece]] on a temporary basis 35 of its metropolitan dioceses in northern Greece to be administered by it.
*1930 Mustapha Kemal Atatürk officially renamed Constantinople to Istanbul, which comes from the Greek expression "eis tin poli" (to the City) .
*1931 [[w:Benaki Museum|Benaki Museum]] opens in Athens, housing Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, and Neo-Hellenic ecclesiastical and national art collections.
*1932 Death of Papa-[[Nicholas (Planas)]].
*1933 [[Church of Greece]] bans [[Freemasonry]].
*1935 [[Old Calendarists|Old Calendar]] schism, when three bishops declared their separation from the official [[Church of Greece]] stating that the calendar change was a schismatic act; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, transformed [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] into a museum.
=== Kingdom of Greece Restored (1935-1967) ===
*1936 [[Apostoliki Diakonia]] of the [[Church of Greece]] founded; General [[w:Ioannis Metaxas|Ioannis Metaxas]], Prime Minister of Greece during the [[w:4th of August Regime|4th of August Regime]] (1936-41), propagated a Third Hellenic Civilization (Ancient Greece and Byzantium being the first two).
*1938 Death of [[Silouan the Athonite|Silouan of Mt Athos]].
*1939-49 WWII and subsequent [http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Greek_Civil_War Greek civil war] (1942-49), famine and widespread bloodshed.
*1939 The immigration of the [[w:The immigration of the Antiochian Greeks reaches its peak |Antiochian Greeks]] reaches its peak.
*1943 [[w:Massacre of Kalavryta|Massacre of Kalavryta]] by German occupation forces, including the monks and monastery of [[w:Agia Lavra|Agia Lavra]]; the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews of Athens fails, thanks to the combined efforts of Abp. [[Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Athens]], Greek resistance groups and the Greek people.
*1945 Abp. [[Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Athens]] serves as regent in an attempt to stabilise Greece.
*1946-82 Approximately 211,000 Greeks emigrated to the United States.
*1947 The Dodecanese Islands are liberated but remain under the [[Church of Constantinople|Patriarchate of Constantinople]].
*1948 Death of [[Savvas the New of Kalymnos]].
*1950 Uncovering of the relics of St. [[Ephraim of New Makri]].
*1952 New Monastery of [[Panagia Soumela]] built in the village of Kastania, in Macedonia, Greece, housing the wonderworking icon of [[Panagia Soumela]], becoming a center of religious pilgrimage.
*1953 The Athonite School was officially re-established in [[Mount Athos]], now named the ''‘Athonite Ecclesiastical Academy’'', it occupies a wing of the Skete of St Andrew in Karyes, and follows the Greek secondary school curriculum combined with ecclesiastical education.
*1955 In September in Istanbul an organised mob was turned against the ethnic Greek community and the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in an orchestrated pogrom, destroying 73 churches, 1,004 residences, 5,000 small- and medium-sized businesses, two cemeteries, 23 schools and 5 athletic centres; the number of ethnic Greeks who were forced to leave Turkey by 1960 as a result of these events is estimated at around 9,000.
*1956 Dr. Constantine Cavarnos founds the [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ibmgs/index.html Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies] in Belmont, Massachusetts.
*1959 Death of Blessed Elder [[Joseph (Spilaiotis)]] the [[Hesychast]].
*1960 Death of [[Anthimos of Chios]].
*1963 [[Soter Brotherhood]] is created, as the more traditionalist members broke away from the [[Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe|Zoe Brotherhood]] to form a smaller new brotherhood under the leadership of Prof. [[Panagiotes N. Trembelas]], having a profound influence on the [[Church of Greece]]; Second Pan-Orthodox Conference held in Rhodes; 1000th anniversary celebration of founding of [[Mount Athos]].
*1964 [[Panagia Malevi]] icon of the Mother of God begins gushing myrrh; third Pan-Orthodox Conference held in Rhodes; in March Turkey denounced the 1930 bilateral agreement on disputes arising from the exchange of populations and expelled more than 17,000 ethnic Greeks, who were deprived of all access to their real estate, goods and chattels, subsequently followed by the de facto exodus of 40,000 ethnic Greeks of Turkish citizenship.
*1965 First Metropolitan for Piraeus is elected, His Eminence [[Chrysostomos (Tabladorakis) of Argolidos]]; [[Monastery of Panagia Pantanassa (Kranidiou)]] founded; Pope Paul VI of Rome and Patriarch [[Athenagoras I (Spyrou) of Constantinople]] mutually nullify the [[excommunication]]s of 1054.
*1966 Death of Righteous Father [[Ieronymos of Aegina|Ieronymos (Apostolides) of Aegina]]; Center for Byzantine Research established at the ''Aristotle University of Thessaloniki''.
*1966-80 About 160,000 more Greeks emigrated to the US, however since the 1980's emigration to the US tapered off considerably.
=== Military Dictatorship (1967-1974) ===
*1968 [[Orthodox Academy of Crete]] (OAC) founded.
*1970 Death of [[Amphilochios (Makris)]] of Patmos.
*1971 [[Theological School of Halki|Halki Seminary]], Orthodoxy's most prominent theological school, is closed by Turkish authorities breaching Article 40 of the Lausanne Treaty and Article 24 of the Turkish Constitution which both guarantee religious freedom and education.
*1972 [[w:Ecclesiastical coup|Ecclesiastical coup in Cyprus]] fails to remove Makarios from the Presidency.
*1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish forces advance capturing the 37% of the island, 3,000 are killed or missing, 200,000 become refugees; the Monarchy is voted out by a plebiscite vote of 69%.
=== Third Hellenic Republic (1974-Present) ===
*1974 [[Esphigmenou Monastery (Athos)]], a stronghold for the conservative Greek [[Old Calendarists]], withdrew its representative from the common meetings of the Holy Community at Karyes (the administrative center of [[Mount Athos]]), accusing the [[Church of Constantinople|Patriarchate]] of being [[Ecumenism|ecumenist]], and refusing to commemorate the Patriarch; Metropolitan [[Seraphim (Tikas) of Athens|Seraphim]] of Ioannina is elected Archbishop of Athens and all Greece (1974-1998).
*1975 Death of Papa-[[Dimitris (Gagastathis)]]; ''Article 3'' of the [[w:Constitution of Greece|Greek Constitution]] officially declares the prevailing religion in Greece as Eastern Orthodoxy under the authority of the autocephalous [[Church of Greece]], united in doctrine to the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]].
*1976 The ''[[w:Dimotiki|Dimotiki]] (Demotic)'' dialect of [[w:Modern Greek|Modern Greek]] was made the official language, replacing the purified and formal ''[[w:Katharevousa|Katharevousa]]'' dialect of [[w:Modern Greek|Modern Greek]] which had been in use for nearly two centuries since foundation of the modern Greek state.
*1978 Abortions are legalised in Greece but only under certain specific circumstances.
*1980 Death of Elder [[Philotheos (Zervakos)]] of Paros; Orthodox-Roman Catholic Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue, 1st plenary, met in Patmos and Rhodes.
*1981 Greece becomes the 10th member of the European Community, [[January 1]]; Adultery is decriminalized in the penal code.
*1982 [[w:Greek diacritics|Monotonic orthography]] was imposed by law on the Greek language, however the [[Church of Greece|Greek Orthodox Church]] continues to use [[w:Greek diacritics|polytonic orthography]].
*1983 Death of Elder [[Arsenios the cave-dweller of Mt. Athos]].
*1984 Orthodox-Roman Catholic Joint Commission, 3rd plenary, meets in Khania, Crete.
*1986 [[Root of Jesse]] icon of the Mother of God in Andros begins gushing myrrh; glorification of [[Arsenios the Cappadocian]] (+1924) by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
*1987 In April, parliament approved a law to expropriate monastic land in order to redistribute some to poor peasants, and to take over administration of urban church-owned assets; Abp. [[Seraphim (Tikas) of Athens]] was victorious however in preventing the government from expropriating church landholdings, by allowing some land redistribution while opposing nationalisation of church and monastery land.
*1988 [[Mount Athos]] is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site; radio station "[[Church of Piraeus 91.2 FM]]" begins transmitting in October.
*1989 Elder [[Ephraim of Philotheou]] begins founding [[Mount Athos|Athonite]]-style monasteries in North America.
*1990 The [[Friends of Mount Athos]] society is formed by people sharing a common interest for the monasteries of [[Mount Athos]], with Metr. [[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia|Kallistos (Ware)]] of Diokleia being the President of the society, also including Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) and Prince Charles (Prince of Wales and Heir Apparent to the British throne) among its members.
*1991 Death of Elder [[Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalivite]] (Evangelos (Bairaktaris)) [[February 7]].
*1992 Deaths of [[Gabrielia (Papayannis)]] and [[Chrysanthi of Andros]]; Synaxis of primates of Orthodox churches in Constantinople; Thessaloniki was selected as the cultural capital of Europe.
*1993 [[Church of Cyprus]] condemned Freemasonry as a religion incompatible with Christianity; canonization of [[Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna]].
*1994 Death of Elder [[Paisios (Eznepidis)]] of Mt. [[Athos]] [[July 12]]; Museum of Byzantine Culture is inaugurated in Thessaloniki; Greek Parliament passes a resolution affirming the [[w:Greek genocide|genocide in the Pontus region]] of Asia Minor and designated [[May 19]] a day of commemoration.
*1995 Death of Eldress [[Macrina of Volos]]; Ecumenical Patriarch [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Bartholomew I]] visits Patmos as part of the celebration of the 1,900th anniversary of the writing of the [[Book of Revelation]] by the [[Apostle John|Evangelist John]].
*1997 A bomb explodes at the [[Church of Constantinople|Patriarchate of Constantinople]], seriously injuring Orthodox deacon Nectarius Nikolou and damaging several buildings.
*1998 Death of Elder [[Ephraim of Katounakia]]; [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/thessaloniki_roc.aspx Thessaloniki Summit] held to discuss Orthodox participation in [[w:World Council of Churches|WCC]]; [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens|Archbishop Christodoulos (Paraskevaides)]] was enthroned in Athens as the new head of the [[Church of Greece|Greek Orthodox Church]] (1998-2008); a proposal to force the separation of church and state in Greece was rejected; Greek parliament affirmed the [[w:Greek genocide|genocide of Greeks]] in Asia Minor as a whole (Pontian and Anatolian [[w:Ottoman Greeks|Ottoman Greeks]]), and designated [[September 14]] a day of commemoration.
*2000 Government of Greece orders removal of compulsory reference to religious affiliation on state identity cards, despite campaigns against this from the [[Church of Greece]] and the majority of the public.
*2001 Death of Elder [[Haralambos Dionysiatis]], teacher of [[Jesus Prayer|noetic prayer]]; on the first trip to Greece by a Pope since AD 710, Pope John Paul II of Rome [[Fourth Crusade#Papal Apology to Orthodox Church|apologizes to Orthodox Church]] for [[Fourth Crusade]]; a day earlier some 1,000 Orthodox conservatives took to the streets to denounce his visit; in March, Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] blessed the ''Hellenic Genocide Petition Effort'', which urged that the government not violate Law 2675/98 by deleting the term "genocide" when explaining the destruction of Hellenism in Asia Minor; Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] visits the [[Church of Russia|Patriarchate of Moscow]], being also received by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
*2002 [[Metropolis of Glyfada]] is established as a new [[metropolis]] separating from [[Metropolis of Nea Smyrni]]; Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] consented to the construction of a mosque in Athens to end the situation of the Greek capital being the only EU capital without a Muslim place of worship; Ecumenical [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Patriarch Bartholomew I]] of Constantinople declared the monks of [[Esphigmenou Monastery (Athos)]] as being in [[schism]] with the [[Orthodox Church]].
*2003 Orthodox Churches in Europe commemorated the 550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople in May; the Greek Minister of Culture Evangelos Venizelos informs Europarliament session that the status of the monasteries on Holy [[Mount Athos]] and its way of life will remain unchanged, citing official recognition of this status fixed in Article 105 of the Greek Constitution and also legally confirmed in the special Athens Treaty clause specifying conditions on which Greece joined the European Union; in February, the Holy Synod of the [[Church of Greece|Greek Orthodox Church]] issued a statement opposing the threat of war in Iraq.
*2003 Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] has falling out with Ecumenical [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople|Patriarch Bartholomew]] over who should have the final say in the appointment of bishops in northern Greece, but rift is mended four months later; the proposal to build a mosque outside Athens before the 2004 Olympics was blocked due to opposition from residents and [[Church of Greece|Greece's Orthodox Church]] which disagreed with the location and plans for the funding for the multimillion-pound mosque to come from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd.
*2004 In September, a helicopter carrying Patr. [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria]] along with 16 others (including 3 other bishops of the [[Church of Alexandria]]) crashed into the Aegean Sea while en route to the monastic community of [[Mount Athos]] with no survivors.
*2005 Church of Greece hosted the WCC ''World Conference on Mission and Evangelism'' in Athens, the first in an Orthodox country in the history of this body; in October, the ''"Grey Wolves"'' Turkish terrorist group staged a rally outside the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in Phanar, proceeding to the gate where they laid a black wreath, chanting ''"Patriarch Leave"'' and ''"Patriarchate to Greece"'', inaugurating the campaign for the collection of signatures to oust the Ecumenical Patriarchate from Istanbul; Britain's Prince Charles arrived on the monastic community of [[Mount Athos]] for a three-day visit in May; Vladimir Putin becomes the first Russian state leader to visit [[Mount Athos]].
*2006 Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] visits Vatican, the first head of the [[Church of Greece]] to visit the Vatican, reciprocating the Pope's visit to Greece in 2001, signing a Joint Declaration on the importance of the Christian roots of Europe and protecting fundamental human rights; government of Greece announces it will fund and build a €15 million (US$19 million) new mosque in Athens, to be the the first working mosque in the Greek capital since the end of Ottoman rule over 170 years prior, welcomed by Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] and the [[Church of Greece]] in accordance with its established position; Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] castigated globalisation as a ''"crime against humanity"''; Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis goes on a three-day pilgrimmage to [[Mount Athos]]; Pope [[Benedict XVI]] met with Greek Orthodox Seminarians from the [[Apostoliki Diakonia]] theology college in Greece who were visiting Rome, urging them to confront the challenges that threaten the faith by working to unify all Christians; a ruling by a first-instance court in Athens approved the formation of an association of people who worship the 12 gods of Mount Olympus, linked to New Age practises by the Church of Greece.
*2006 The church reported that there were 216 men’s monastic communities and 259 for women along with 66 sketes, with a total of 1,041 monks and 2,500 nuns, witnessing to a modern modest revival in [[monasticism]]; in September, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric called for Muslims to kill the Pope, Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] told a sermon in Athens that Christians in Africa were suffering at the hands of ''"fanatic Islamists"'', citing the example of Roman Catholic monks who were slaughtered the previous year ''"because they wore the cross and believed in our crucified Lord"''; Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]] criticized the authors of a state issued elementary school sixth grade history textbook, as attempting to conceal the Church's role in defending Greek national identity during Ottoman occupation, the book being later removed in 2007; death of Elder [[Athanasios Mitilinaios]], having authored thousands of recorded lectures in the spirit of patristic traditional Orthodoxy.
*2007 Greek Minority Lyceum at the Phanar (''[http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Great_School_of_the_Nation Megali tou Genous Sxoli]'' - today a middle and high school of the Greek minority) wins a judgement condemning Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), for violation of the ''European Convention On Human Rights (protection of property)''; 1600th anniversary celebration of the repose of [[John Chrysostom]]; the [[w:International Association of Genocide Scholars|International Association of Genocide Scholars]] passed the ''[http://www.genocidescholars.org/images/Resolution_on_genocides_committed_by_the_Ottoman_Empire.pdf IAGS Resolution on Genocides Against Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, and Other Christians by the Ottoman Empire 13 July 2007],'' affirming that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities between 1914-1923 was genocide; a half-finished painting in the Church of the Holy Virgin in Axioupolis, northern Greece, of [http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSL0677226020070206 Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin] cutting off the beard of [[Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) of Simferopol and Crimea|St Luke]] - painted as a symbol of communist oppression of the Church - offended traditionalists who wanted it removed.
*2008 Death of Abp. [[Christodoulos (Paraskevaides) of Athens]], proving to be one of the most popular archbishops in Greek history, reviving the appeal of the Church in a secular age, especially among young people; Abp. [[Ieronymos II (Liapis) of Athens]] elected; [[Glorification]] of [[George (Karslidis) of Drama]]; [http://www.ec-patr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=en&id=995&tla=en Pan-Orthodox meeting in Constantinople] in October of the Primates of the fourteen Orthodox Churches, signing a document calling for inter-orthodox unity and collaboration and "''the continuation of preparations for the Holy and Great Council''"; the 13-member standing committee of the [[Church of Greece]] denounced government plans to introduce a civil partnerships law, saying government support for common law marriage would amount to state-sanctioned “prostitution.”
*2009 The European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey violated the property rights of the ''Bozcaada Kimisis Teodoku Greek Orthodox Church'' on the Aegean island of Bozcaada; the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] has filed more than two dozen cases with the ECHR to recover some of the thousands of properties it has lost; US President Barack Obama made an explicit appeal in his speech to the Turkish Parliament for the reopening of the hotly contested Greek Orthodox [[Theological School of Halki|seminary on Halki]], viewed by the European Union and others as a test case for religious freedom in Turkey; a delegation from the Orthodox Church of Greece headed by Metropolitan Nectarios of Kerkira, Paxoi and Diapontioi Nisoi visited several monasteries in West Ukraine; Patr. Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas of the [[Church of Antioch (Syriac)|Oriental Church of Antioch]] went on an official visit to Greece, as the guests of the Greek Government and the Greek Orthodox Church to congratulate the new Abp. of the Greek Church and to renew the relationship between both churches; Elder [[Joseph of Vatopedi]] reposes peacefully, funeral service held [[July 1]]; Russian Orthodox Patr. [[Kyrill I (Gundyayev) of Moscow|Kirill]] called on Turkish authorities to re-open the [[Theological School of Halki|Theological Seminary on Halki]]; over 1,000 Muslims rallied in the city streets of Athens over unsubstantiated claims that Greek police allegedly tore up and trampled on the Quran, smashing 75 cars, injuring 14 people, overturning trash bins and attacking banks; a group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, published a manifesto, ''[http://www.impantokratoros.gr/FA9AF77F.en.aspx A Confession of Faith Against Ecumenism],'' pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants, amongst its signatories including six metropolitans, as well as 49 archimandrites, 22 hieromonks, and 30 nuns and abbesses, as well as many other priests and church elders.
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