Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos: series of 8 public lectures – Contribution to the bicentenary 1821-2021

Through the “Truly” Cultural Centre of Discourse, the Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos deposes its spiritual contribution to the anniversary events in honour of the bicentenary of the National Uprising of 1821.

This framework includes a series of public lectures to be delivered online due to the pandemic-related restrictions worldwide. Even in this manner, though, it is worth adding the contribution of the local Church to the collective historical memory of our fellow Greeks, indeed by heeding Goethe’s advice, that “the people which forgets its history is condemned to relive it”.

The lectures planned are eight and will be gradually uploaded on YouTube in the course of March and April, effective from March 15, 2021 with a public lecture by Most Rev. Metropolitan Dionysios of Zakynthos, under whose blessing the whole endeavour is placed. The staff of the Metropolitanate plan to launch further public lectures after Easter and within the anniversary year.

It is worth noting that all public lectures will be marked by an original spot, as their signal, produced by Mr Ioannis Porphyrios Capodistrias, museologist, production editor and special collaborator of “Truly”.

Timetable of the Public Lectures 

Μarch 2021

• Monday 15.3.2021
  Metropolitan Dionysios IV of Zakynthos: “The Contribution of Monasticism to the Greek Revolution of 1821”
• Sunday 21.3.2021
  Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Father Panaghiotis Capodistrias, Vicar General of the Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos, Master’s degree in Theology, poet: “Dionysios Solomos, perennial firebrand in one way or another”
• Thursday 25.3.2021
  Ioannis Demetis, writer, researcher: “The church of the Latin Saint George, cradle and starting point of the Society of Friends”
• Monday 29.3.2021
  Dionysios Zapheiropoulos, theologian, teacher: “The 18-year-old Neomartyr Theophilos, seed from Zakynthos for the tree of the National Uprising”

April 2021

• Sunday 4.4.2021
  Archimandrite Dionysios Lykoghiannis, Hieropreacher of the Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos, Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens: “Silversmiths from Kalarrhyta as refugees in Zakynthos”
• Saturday 10.4.2021
  Metropolitan Dionysios IV of Zakynthos: “Saint Gregorios V, the monastic of the Strophades Islands: from Demetsana and the Monastery of the Strophades to the waters of the Bosphorus”
• Wednesday 14.4.2021
  Katerina Demeti, archæologist, Director of the Solomos and Eminent Zakynthians Museum: “Public sculptures of Zakynthos. Their contribution to the commemoration of the Greek Revolution 200 years after its outbreak”
• Monday 19.4.2021
  Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Panaghiotis Capodistrias: “Facets and faces of 1821 in the work of Dinos Konomos, historian of Zakynthos”