“The period from the Fall of Constantinople to 1821
in the work of the Greek philosopher and political thinker Constantinos Despotopoulos”
On Sunday, February 7, 2021, the Holy Archdiocese of Athens organized 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” in the Kottakis Holy Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour (Kydathinaion Street, Plaka, Athens). It was an event inscribed in the Programme of the Synodic and peripheral events of the Church of Greece in honour of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821.
The opening of the event was declared by Ms Despoina Tsatsou-Mylona, while papers were delivered by 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”, and 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”.
The event was carried out online at 16h, broadcast from the www.ekklisia1821.gr and www.metamorfosis-sotiros.org websites, and coordinated by the vicar of the church, Archimandrite Father Bartholomaios Antoniou-Triantaphyllidis.
