This week, too, the events of the Holy Metropolitanates of the Church of Greece are continued, in honour of the bicentenary of the Great Greek Revolution of 1821.
Sunday, February 7, 2021
The Holy Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour (at Plaka) of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, will organize a soirée on the subject “The period from the Fall of Constantinople to 1821 in the work of the Greek philosopher and political thinker Constantinos Despotopoulos”.
The opening of the event will be declared by Ms Despoina Tsatsou-Mylona, while papers will be delivered by Mr Gheorghios Tsoutsos, political scientist and historian, on the subject of “The positions of Costantinos Despotopoulos on crucial issues related to the Greek Revolution of 1821” and Mr Christos Baloglou, Ph.D. in Economics, on the subject of “The Greek historian Alexandros Despotopoulos (twin brother of Constantinos) and the Greek Revolution of 1821”.
The event will be carried out online at 19h and will be broadcast from the www.ekklisia1821.gr and www.metamorfosis-sotiros.org websites, while it will be coordinated by the vicar of the church, Archimandrite Father Bartholomaios Antoniou-Triantaphyllidis.
Monday, February 8, 2021
The Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis will carry out an event online on the topic of “The years of slavery – the Turkish Rule”, with Mr Evanghelos Pehas, philologist and teacher, as speaker, which will be broadcast from the www.imfth.gr Website of the Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis.
