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OPENING THE GATE OF PHANAR.(Kentucky Life: Religion)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 7/15/2004; 695 words
; ...metal-screening device. They cannot enter the Phanar's main gate because it was welded shut...religion as it is on basic human rights, said Phanar spokesman Father Dositheos, through an...these countries. But officials at the Phanar disagree and hope to verify reports that...
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Opening the gate of Phanar
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 7/16/2004; ; 692 words
; ...metal-screening device. They cannot enter the Phanar's main gate because it was welded shut...as it is on basic human rights," said Phanar spokesman Father Dositheos, through an...these countries." But officials at the Phanar disagree and hope to verify reports that...
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OPINION: Watch pope's solidarity with Orthodox Christians.
Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX); 11/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...Bartholomew, spiritual head of the world's 220 million Orthodox Christians. The entire Byzantine Empire has been reduced to the Phanar, he said, referring to the tiny Istanbul quarter that serves as patriarchal headquarters. Think of it! The magnificent Christian...
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Constantinople's Last Hurrah: Turkey and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...brick drawn up steeply against the hills of Istanbul's Fener (Phanar) district overlooking the Golden Horn. The front gate was painted...the training ground for the sons of the wealthy and powerful Phanariot Greeks. Originally merchants and shipowners, these families...
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Diary
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 8/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...drive, we arrive in Iasi, once the cosmopolitan, decadent seat of the Greek princes of Moldavia, merchants from Constantinople's Phanar, some descended from Byzantine emperors. Iasi was a pot-pourri of Byzantine, Slav, Parisian and Ottoman culture that delighted...
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First trip to Istanbul for Archbishop of Canterbury.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 11/18/2003; 314 words
; ...interest in the Orthodox Churches, paid a formal visit to the Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. Visiting the Phanar, the Cathedral Church of St George, Dr Williams said his trip was a sign of the unity in Christ's Church. 'It gives me great...
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Earthquake In Turkey: Istanbul's rich heritage of historic buildings `unscathed' Architectural Damage
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/18/1999; ; 371 words
; ...Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and his staff, were not injured by the earthquake, but like much of Istanbul's buildings, the Phanar, as the headquarters is known, is without electricity or working telephones. Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New...
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The Witness of the Orthodox Church.
Magazine article from: The Ecumenical Review; 1/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...1970s, the continuing attacks on the ecumenical patriarchate today. We may be confident that the Patriarch will remain in the Phanar for as long as he possibly can: but how much longer will he in fact be allowed to do so? The future of the patriarchate, in...
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Recent patriarchal encyclicals on religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...lands of the Eastern Empire for much of the nineteenth century. In 1872 a Great Synod, held in our Patriarchal Cathedral at the Phanar, in the name of the Prince of Peace, issued an unqualified condemnation of the sin of phyletism, saying, We renounce, censure...
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The discreet charm of the little sister: France and Romania.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...this mutual indifference began to change. The Romanian principalities were then governed by a string of Greek princes from the Phanar district of Istanbul, appointed by the Sultan. The cultural development they promoted was of Byzantine and Greek influence...
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