1.27 FC – Ecclesiastical Matters after 1453

“They Understood that in that Place the Saint Wanted To Be Buried”: Mapping the Final Days of Patriarch Saint Gennadios I in the Cypriot Landscape

In the encomium to Patriarch Gennadios I of Constantinople, preserved in cod. Par. gr. 1189 (ff. 230v–235v), Saint Neophytos the Recluse of Cyprus offers details about the Patriarch’s life that are otherwise unattested in surviving sources. According to Neophytos, Gennadios abdicated the Patriarchal throne in his final years and traveled in secret to Cyprus. There,…

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Aristotle in Church Literature from the Period of Ottoman Occupation: The Cases of the Aristotelian Scholars Georgios Koressios and Nectarius, Patriarch of Jerusalem

The philosophical debate that took place during Renaissance regarding Plato’s or Aristotle’s superiority eventually became part of late Byzantine theology. Consequently, this issue also became an integral part of post-Byzantine theology, either as an integral and independent theme, or as an adjunct issue to the broader discussion for the preservation of tradition in the face…

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