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Topic: Gennadius II of Constantinople


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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantinople
Constantinople had, therefore, to sustain numberless sieges; it was attacked in 378 by the Goths, by the Avars and Persians during the reign of Heraclius (610-41), by the Arabs during the reign of Constantine Pogonatus (668-85), and again by the Arabs under Moslemeh in 717; many times also by Bulgarians, Patzinaks, Russians, and Khazars.
The first period of the schism was coeval, especially at Constantinople, with a remarkable literary revival, inaugurated as early as the tenth century by the Macedonian dynasty and carried to its perfection under the Comneni and the Palæologi.
Mohammed II built the castle of Yedi-Kouleh, the Tchinili-Kiosk (now a museum), the mosques of Cheik Bokhari, of the Janizaries, of Kassim-Pasha, of Eyoub, where every sultan at his accession is obliged to be girt with the sword of Othman, etc. Bayazid II built the Bayazidieh (1458).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04301a.htm   (7386 words)

  
 Separation of church and state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The position of head of the Orthodox Church was given to Gennadius II Scholarius by the conquering Islamic Ottoman ruler, Sultan Mehmed II, who continued to practice the right of the Roman Emperor to appoint the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The position of the Church of Greece and its relations with the State are set forth in Article 3, par.
According to this article: (a) The Greek-Orthodox dogma is the prevailing religion, (b) The Church of Greece is inseparably united in doctrine with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and with all other Orthodox Churches, and (c) The Church is self-administered and autocephalous.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state   (8995 words)

  
 Articles - Byzantium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The location of Byzantium attracted Constantine the Great who, in AD 330, refounded it as Nova Roma or Constantinoupolis (Constantinople, Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις) after a prophetic dream was said to have identified the location of the city.
The position of head of the Greek Orthodox Church was given to Gennadius II Scholarius by the conquering Muslim Sultan Mehmed II.
On May 29 1453, the city fell to the Ottoman Turks and was part of the Ottoman Empire until its official dissolution on November 1, 1922.
www.zdiamond.net /articles/Byzantium   (391 words)

  
 The History of Paedocommunion From the Early Church Until 1500
The ancient sources do not discuss paedocommunion as a strange or recent phenomenon; rather, it is casually mentioned as a standard part of life.
Gennadius of Marseilles, one of the earliest ecclesiastical historians, was faced with a problem in the year 495.
The problem was the question of how to receive some of the early church members who had been baptized by heretics in schism.
www.reformed.org /sacramentology/tl_paedo.html   (7258 words)

  
 August 31: George Scholarios labored to preserve Orthodoxy
Therefore he retired to a monastery, taking the name Gennadius.
After the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, Sultan Mohamet II, required the Orthodox to restore a patriarch for Constantinople.
His objections were overruled by the majority; and so, in 1454, he became the first patriarch of Constantinople (modern Instanbul) under Islamic rule.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/08/daily-08-31-2003.shtml   (602 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
The position of head of the Greek Orthodox Church was given to Gennadius II Scholarius by the conquering muslim king.
Historically, during World War II, before the current constitution was drafted and when the Japanese Empire was an undemocratic nation, Shintoism was strongly backed by the government, which placed emperor Hirohito, a shinto god, at the head of state.
A precedent of limiting the rights of the church – especially the Roman Catholic Church– was set by President Valentín Gómez Farías in 1833.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Separation_of_Church_and_State   (7181 words)

  
 Brothers and sisters of Jesus
Even before that, the Council of Constantinople II (553-554) twice referred to Mary as "ever-virgin."...
Jerome devotes his entire treatise against Helvidius to the perpetual virginity of Our Blessed Lady (see especially nos.
- "madness and blasphemy" by Gennadius (De dogm.
www.biblia.com /encyclopedia/brothers.htm   (2650 words)

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