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Grigorios V

patriarch of Constantinople

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War of Greek Independence

  • Academy of Athens
    In Greece: The millet system

    …Independence in 1821, the patriarch Grigorios V was executed in reprisal, despite the fact that he had vigorously condemned the insurgents, whose efforts to create an independent Greek state he saw as a threat to his power. In the West his execution was seen as an act of mindless barbarity.…

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  • Academy of Athens
    In Greece: The role of the Orthodox church

    Grigorios V was executed by the Ottomans in 1821 during his third patriarchate, whereas during the second half of the 17th century Dionysius IV Mouselimis was elected patriarch at least five times. It was this kind of behaviour that prompted an 18th-century Armenian chronicler to…

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