Holy Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki
Scholarly Conference
“Commencement of the Revolution in Moldowallachia
– Ypsilantis and the participation in the Struggle of the Greeks of Pontus (on the grounds of the Pontic origins of Ypsilantis), Asia Minor, and the Diaspora”


Sunday, February 21, 2021:

Solemn Doxology in commemoration of the commencement of the Revolution in Moldowallachia.

Monday, February 22, 2021:

Scholarly Conference on the subject : “Commencement of the Revolution in Moldowallachia – Ypsilantis and the participation in the Struggle of the Greeks of Pontus, Asia Minor, and the Diaspora”, carried out under the auspices of the Holy Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki and organized by the Special Synodic Committee of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on Cultural Identity, within the framework of the Synodic and regional events in honour of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution (1821-2021).

Those interested may wish to watch the Doxology and the Scholarly Conference online via zoom electronic platform, at the following links: 


The schedule in detail:

Sunday, February 21, 2021
11h, Holy Church of the Patron Saint Demetrius

Solemn Doxology, in commemoration of the commencement of the Revolution in Moldowallachia, with all the healthcare measures observed for the protection from the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Monday, February 22, 2021
11h – 14h Scholarly Conference

11h – 11h30
Opening of the Conference – Welcome messages

  • Very Rev. Archimandrite Father Bartholomaios Antoniou – Triantaphyllides, Secretary of the Special Synodic Committee of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on Cultural Identity;
  • Very Rev. Archimandrite Father Iakovos Athanassiou, Protosynkellos of the Holy Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki, representing the All-Holy Metropolitan Anthimos of Thessaloniki;
  • Very Rev. Archimandrite Father Nikolaos Papagheorghiou, Introductory reading-out of the Declaration of February 24, 1821, of Alexandros Ypsilantis.


11h30 – 12h30 | 1st Session
Chair: Mr Constantinos Kotsiopoulos,
Associate Professor of the Sociology of Christianity, Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

11h30 – 11h50 | 1st paper: “Education in Moldowallachia”.
Speaker: Ms Sophia Tahou -–Eliadou, Professor of Modern Greek History and History of Education, Department of Pædagogics of Primary Education in Florina, University of Western Macedonia.          

11h50 – 12h10 | 2nd paper: “The participation of the Thracians in the Revolution of Moldowallachia”.
Speaker: Ms Iphigheneia Vamvakidou, Professor of Contemporary Greek History and Culture, Department of Pædagogics of Nursery School Teachers, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Macedonia.   

12h10 – 12h30 | Questions – Discussion.

12h30 – 14h00 | 2nd Session
Chair: Mr Symeon Paschalides,
Professor of Patristics and Hagiology, Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

12h30 – 12h50 | 1st paper: “The purpose of the commencement of the Revolution in Moldowallachia”.
Speaker: Mr Constantinos Kotsiopoulos, Associate Professor of the Sociology of Christianity, Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

12h50 – 13h10 | 2nd paper: “The contribution of the Ypsilantis Brothers to the Greek Palingenesia”.
Speaker: Mr Kyriakos Hatzikyriakides, Assistant Professor, Chair of Pontic Studies, Department of History and Archæology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

13h10 – 13h30 | 3rd paper: “In Trebizond they became partners in it …”.
Speaker: Mr Theodossios Kyriakides, Ph.D. in History and Scholarly Associate, Chair of Pontic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Athens, and Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities of the International University of Greece.

13h30 – 14h00 | Questions – Discussion


Organizing Committee:
Very Rev. Archimandrite Father Iakovos Athanassiou, Symeon Kyriakides, Constantinos Kotsiopoulos Kyriakos Hadzikyriakides, Theodossios Kyriakides.

Information:
Archimandrite Bartolomaios Antoniou – Triantaphyllides, telephone no. 0030 210 72 72 226, mobile phone no. 0030 698 377 2240, e-mail address: politistikitautotita@yahoo.gr