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activities include publications and the nationwide Sunday School movement in 7,800 churches reaching 150,000 students. Zoë sponsored numerous auxiliaries and affiliated groups, including organizations for professional men, youth, parents, and young women nurses. A strong effort was made to circulate Bibles, illustrated novels, pamphlets, and other religious materials. A liturgical movement encouraged the laity to a greater awareness in the Eucharist, and more frequent Communion. Seminaries were built in the 20th century, but most of the graduates entered teaching rather than parish work. In 1920, only 800 of Greece's 4,500 priests had any education beyond the elementary level. By 1959, out of 7,000 priests no more than five percent had completed university and seminary training. Monastic life declined sharply, although it continued at remote
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themselves, dependent for their livelihood on their farm work and from fees and offerings by parishioners. Their ecclesiastical duties were limited to administering the sacraments, supervising funerals, the blessings of crops, and exorcism. Few attended seminaries. By the 1840s, there was a nationwide revival, run by traveling preachers. The government arrested several and tried to shut down the revival, but it proved too powerful when the revivalists denounced three bishops for purchasing their office. By the 1880s the "Anaplasis" ("Regeneration") Movement led to renewed spiritual energy and enlightenment. It fought against the rationalistic and materialistic ideas that had seeped in from secular Western Europe. It promoted catechism schools and Bible study circles.
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As in other Orthodox Christian churches, male graduates of seminaries run by the church (and financed by the Greek State), may be ordained as deacons and eventually priests. They are allowed to marry before their ordination as deacons, but not afterwards. The vast majority of parish clergy in Greece
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The 20th-century religious revival was led by the Zoë movement, which was founded in 1911.It's a christian sect that deviates away from the principles of Greek Orthodox Church.Based in Athens but operating in decentralized fashion, it reached a membership of laymen as well as some priests. The main
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of the Church is recognized by the Greek government in matters pertaining to church administration. This is governed by the "Constitution of the Church of Greece", which was voted by Parliament into law. Religious marriages and baptisms are legally equivalent to their civil counterparts and the
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In 1833, Parliament dissolved 400 small monasteries having fewer than five monks or nuns. These monasteries played an important role in preserving the Greek language along with arts and tradition through generations of monks. Priests were not salaried; in rural areas they were peasant farmers
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Mainstream Orthodox clergy salaries and pensions are paid by the State, at rates comparable to those of teachers. The church had previously compensated the State by a tax of 35% on ordinary revenues of the church but, in 2004, this tax was abolished by
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and all Greece. This synod deals with general church issues. The Standing Synod is under the same presidency, and consists of the Primate and 12 bishops; each members serves for one term on a rotating basis and deals with administrative details.
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are married. Alternatively, they may enter monasteries and/or take monastic vows. Monastics who are ordained as priests, and possess a university degree in theology, are eligible as candidates for the episcopate (
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relevant certificates are issued by officiating clergy. All Greek Orthodox students in primary and secondary schools in Greece attend religious instruction. Liaisons between church and state are handled by the
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The church is organized into 81 dioceses, of which 36, located in northern Greece and in the major islands in the north and northeast Aegean, are nominally and spiritually under the jurisdiction of the
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enjoys semiautonomous status: new bishops are elected by the local Synod of incumbents, and the Archbishop is appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate from a three-person list (the
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in Greek) and still follow the old Julian Calendar. They themselves have suffered several schisms, and not all Old Calendarists comprise one church. They refer to themselves as "
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According to the constitution, Greek Orthodoxy is the prevailing religion of Greece; this is reinforced by displays of the Greek flag and national emblem at church properties.
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Monasteries are either affiliated to their local diocese, or directly to one of the Orthodox Patriarchates; in the latter case they are called "Stauropegiac" monasteries (
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administered as part of the Church of Greece for practical reasons, under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople. The
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of all subsequent Greek constitutions simply states "In the name of the Holy, Consubstantial, and Indivisible Trinity" and the
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Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe: The Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches
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Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, II: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches.
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was established as a definitive hallmark of Greek ethnic identity in the first modern Greek constitution, the "
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A split (schism) occurred within the church in 1924 when the Holy Synod decided to replace the Old Calendar (
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Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, II: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Churches.
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Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches:
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of the Church of Greece, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, and the Church of Cyprus in 2020.
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with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2018, and later severed full communion with the
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Supreme authority is vested in the synod of all the diocesan bishops who have
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date for fixed feasts. Those who refused to adopt this change are known as
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UOC-MP was moved to formally cut ties with the ROC as of May 27th 2022.
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Article on the Church of Greece by Ronald Roberson on the CNEWA website
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The religious jurisdictions of the Church of Greece (in blue) in Greece
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of 1912–1913 ("Old Greece"), with the rest of Greece (the "New Lands",
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Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church:
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Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East
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Demetrios J. Constantelos, The "Zoë Movement in Greece,"
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Christian denominations established in the 19th century
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is established as the "prevailing" religion of Greece.
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Autocephaly or autonomy is not universally recognized.
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Metropolises and metropolitans of the Church of Greece
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Head of the Church of Greece and of the Holy Synod is
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Autocephaly recognized by some autocephalous Churches
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Metropolis of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontian Islands
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Autocephalous church of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs
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