Gait 23, 2013Democracy
Fault the Conventional clergy the fantastic national devices of 1821 would not sustain succeeded. Confident propagandists of dated ideologies deny the facade of the Bishops and speak really of the "belittle clergy". They are grievance also in provisos of conditions and in their bygone slope.
In the Conventional Church the highly developed clergy are the Bishops, the Presbyters (priests) and the Deacons. To the belittle clergy belong the Subdeacon and the Reader, who are laymen. The French Consul Francois Pouqueville writes that 100 Patriarchs and Bishops were killed done the Turkish Bustle and the Hesitate [of 1821]. Former 1821 represent were 80 aerobics prepared by Greeks, and record were led by Bishops. Lift that from 1680 to 1700 Eastern Fundamental Greece was free in the wake of two Bishops revolted, Hierotheos of Thebes and Philotheos of Salona.
1821 is squalid with the blood of Patriarch Gregory V and Patriarch Cyril VI, from Andrionople. What's more Bishop Germanos of Patras, who blessed the caption at Blessed Lavra Monastery and in Patras, Isaiah of Salona confirmed Wind in Fokida and was sacrificed in Alamana. The Patmian Patriarch of Alexandria, Theophilos Pagkostas, went to Patmos and raised the caption of rebellion. From so he never returned to his throne.
Most Bishops of Peloponnesos were incarcerated by the Pasha of Tripoli from the beginning of Gait 1821, and really two were found vital with the Greeks entered in the wake of 6.5 months. Let us not forget this sacrifice of the shepherds.
In Cyprus, Archbishop Kyprianos had sidekick the Filiki Etairia (Action of Contacts). The Turks were discerning and on 9 July 1821 represent was a fantastic atrocities in Nicosia. Kyprianos together with all the Bishops and Archimandrites were killed together with the elders.
Heaps other Bishops played a indispensable facade in the Hesitate, such as Anthimos of Elos, Theodoritos of Vresthena, Joseph of Androusa, and Neophytos of Talantio (Livadeia). And in the Comfy Exodus of Messolonghi, Bishop Joseph of Rogon, aid to Capital Porphyrios of Arta, was sacrificed although blowing the windmill.
All who lived at that time were confessors: Bishops, priests, simple monastics, all proclaimed their "vision". Our Freedom is in the red earliest to the Blood-stained Cassocks.
