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Hellenism (Greek: Ἑλληνισμός) [a] in a religious context refers to the modern pluralistic religion practiced in Greece and around the world by several communities derived from the beliefs, mythology, and rituals from antiquity through and up to today. It is a system of thought and spirituality with a shared culture and values, and ...
One of the pious views of modern Greece concerns the role of the Orthodox Church in the establishment of the modern Greek nation-state.According to this view, the Church, in the role of a latter-day Noah's Ark, saved the Greek nation in the centuries of the Turkish and Western "deluge" following the fall of the eastern Roman empire in 1453.
The Greek Nation, 1453–1669: The Cultural and Economic Background of Modern Greek Society. Transl. from Greek. Rutgers University Press, 1975. (One of the few scholarly studies in English of this period) Christos Yannaras. Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity in the Modern Age. Transl. Peter Chamberas and Norman Russell.
The Church of Greece, a member of the Eastern Orthodox Communion, is accorded the status of "prevailing religion" in Greece's constitution. Since 1850, Greek Orthodoxy within Greece is handled by the Church. [5] Its members comprise between 88% [6] and 95–98% [7] [8] of the population, the most recent Pew report gave a percentage of 81% as ...
Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, (from 2008).. 2008 Abp. Ieronymos II (Liapis) of Athens elected; [1] Glorification of George (Karslidis) of Drama; [2] Pan-Orthodox meeting in Constantinople in October of the Primates of the fourteen Eastern Orthodox Churches, signing a document calling for inter-orthodox unity and collaboration and "the continuation of preparations for the Holy and Great ...
According to the constitution, Greek Orthodoxy is the prevailing religion of Greece; this is reinforced by displays of the Greek flag and national emblem at church properties. Adherence to the Eastern Orthodox Church was established as a definitive hallmark of Greek ethnic identity in the first modern Greek constitution, the " Epidaurus Law ...
Eastern Orthodox Christianity was the state religion throughout most of Georgia's history until 1921, when the country, having declared independence from Russia in 1918, was conquered by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Georgia, becoming part of the Soviet Union. [4]
"The Cistercians in the Latin Empire of Constantinople and Greece." Traditio 14 (1958), pp. 63–120. Gill Page. Being Byzantine: Greek Identity before the Ottomans, 1200–1420. Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-87181-5; Joseph Gill. Church Union: Rome and Byzantium, 1204–1453. Variorum Reprints, 1979. Kenneth M. Setton.