Object identifier

Γ.4.1

Title

Ecclesiastical Correspondence

Object Type Manuscript

Subject History
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Document
Document file

Date 1865 – 1869 ()

Description Level Georgios Iakovatos Archive

Producer/Contributors greek

Administrative History

Georgios Typaldos Iakovatos will attempt to link social radicalism with the perception of the Nation and opposition to the declaration of autocephaly of the Greek Church, which condemned Hellenism to remain "imprisoned" within the narrow confines of the Greek state. Georgios Iakovatos, Dr of the University of Paris, "Georgantaras" (as he was more widely known), when the Union of the Ionian with Greece took place and the immediate subordination of the Ionian Church to Greece and its secession from Constantinople was attempted, was put in charge of the Cephalonians and the inhabitants of the rest of the Ionian Islands, who for three years, with popular mobilizations, they refused to accept the installation of the ecclesiastical authorities of autocephaly and demanded the election of bishops by the clergy itself. Iakovatos would make a desperate attempt to raise again the question of autocephaly for the entire Greek state and to prevent the pan-Slavic evolution of Russian policy, which was to divide the Balkans.

Usage Location Cephalonia

License

CC BY-NC-ND 4