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GREEK CHURCH. 



the three protecting Powers and the Hellenic Govern- 

 ment, to regulate the stipulations which the Union of 

 the islands with Greece should render necessary. 



ART. 7. The convention mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding article will be communicated to Prussia and 

 Austria. 



ART. 8. The dispositions of the Treaty of 15th 

 November, 1815, cease to be in force, and are abro- 

 gated. 



Two of the above articles (arts. 2 and 3) were 

 declared by both the Greeks and the lonians 

 to be inconsistent with the rights of the repub- 

 lic, as those rights were defined by the treaty 

 of the 15th of November, 1815, which constitu- 

 ted the republic, and defined the powers of the 

 British Protectorate. The Greek Government, 

 and the President of the Ionian Assembly, in 

 the name of that body, also complained that 

 the message of the Lord High Commissioner, 

 on the 6th of October, while it specified the 

 conditions of Ionian annexation to Greece, 

 made no mention either of the neutralization 

 of the islands or of the dismantling of the for- 

 tifications, although those much more import- 

 ant conditions were in point of fact agreed to 

 by all the great Powers, as soon afterward as 

 the 14th of November. 



GREEK CHURCH, also called the Greek 

 Catholic, the Orthodox Greek, the Orthodox, 

 the Oriental or the Eastern Church, is that 

 part of the Christian Church which adheres 

 only to the doctrinal decrees of the first seven 

 oecumenical councils, to wit : of Nice, 325 ; 

 Constantinople, 381 ; Ephestis, 431 ; Chalcedon, 

 451; Constantinople, 553 and 680; Nice, 787; 

 of the so-called Quini-Sextum of Constanti- 

 nople, held in 692, and of the council held at 

 Constantinople under Photius, in 879 and 880, 

 while it rejects the authority of all the suc- 

 ceeding councils recognized by the Roman 

 Catholic Church as oecumenical. 



The Church is made up of the following in- 

 dependent groups : I. The Church of Jerusa- 

 lem. The bishop of this See is styled the 

 "Most Blessed and Holy Patriarch of the Holy 

 City Jerusalem, and all Palestine, Syria, Ara- 

 bia beyond Jordan, Cana in Galilee, and Holy 

 Sion." He resides at Constantinople, and the 

 titular bishop of Petra, in Arabia, resides at 

 Jerusalem, as his assistant or vicar. The Pa- 

 triarchate has thirteen Sees, of which six are 

 Metropolitical (viz. : 1 , Caesarea, in Palestine ; 

 2, Scythopolis ; 3, Petra, in Arabia ; 4, Ptole- 

 mais ; 5, Bethlehem ; 6, Nazareth), and six 

 Archiepiscopal (viz. : 7, Lyclda ; 8, Gaza ; 9, 

 Joppa; 10, Neapolis; 11, Sebaste; 12, Mount 

 Tabor ; and one Episcopal See, Philadelphia). 

 II. The Church of Antioch. The bishop of this 

 Church is entitled " The Most Blessed and Holy 

 Patriarch of the Divine City of Antioch, Syria, 

 Arabia, Cilicia, Iberia, Mesopotamia, and all 

 the East ; Father of Fathers, and Pastor of Pas- 

 tors." To this Church belong the following 

 sixteen Metropolitical Sees: 1, Tyre and Sidon; 

 (See at Chasbe) ; 2, Damascus ; 8, Berrhcea or 

 Aleppo ; 4, Epiphani or Cham ; 5, Laodicea or 

 Latakie; 6, Seleucia (See in the Monastery 



Sacdonos) ; 7, Anida or Diarbekir ; 8, Tripoli ; 

 9, Bostra; 10, Emessa or Horns; 11, Berytug 

 or Beyrout; 12, Adana (See at Paias, the an- 

 cient Issus) ; 13, Heliopolis or Baalbeck ; 14, 

 Acre (there is a suffragan of Jerusalem who 

 also claims this See) ; 15, Palmyra (this prel- 

 ate resides in "Wallachia); 16, Theodosiopolis 

 or Erzerurn. III. Alexandria. The patriarch 

 resides at Alexandria or Cairo, and is called 

 " The Most Blessed and Holy Patriarch of this 

 Great City Alexandria, and of all Egypt, Pen- 

 tapolis, Libya, and Ethiopia, Pope and (Ecumen- 

 ical Judge." To this Church belong four Metro- 

 political Sees. 1, Libya ; 2, Memphis ; 3, Pelu- 

 sium ; 4, Metelis. IV. Constantinople, which 

 patriarchate embraces one hundred and thirty- 

 five Sees, of which ninety are Metropolitical, 

 and four Archiepiscopal. The Metropolitans 

 in the Turkish dominions proper are eighty- 

 three, and the whole number of bishops is one 

 hundred and sixteen. The principalities (Wal- 

 lachia 4, and Moldavia 3) have seven bishops ; 

 Servia, 4; Venice, 1 (who is a Metropolitan, 

 and is called president) ; and the Ionian Islands, 

 7. The bishoprics of Servia are: 1, Belgrad 

 (Metropolitan) ; 2, Schabatz ; 3, Negotin ; 4, 

 Tchatchat. The Ionian Islands have three Me- 

 tropolitical dioceses (1, Corcyra ; 2, Cepha- 

 lonia ; 3, Zacynthus) ; two archbishoprics (4, 

 Leucadia; 5, Cythera) ; two other bishoprics 

 (6, Ithaca ; 7, Paxos). V. The Church of Russia, 

 under the " Most Holy Governing Synod of all 

 the Russias." This Church has sixty -five Sees, 

 of which five are Metropolitical, and twenty-five 

 Archiepiscopal. VI. Cyprus. The bishop is 

 called the " Most Blessed and Holy Archbishop 

 of Nova Justiniana, and all Cyprus." To it 

 belong the bishoprics of: 1, Paphos; 2, Cit- 

 ium; 3, Cyrene. VII. Austria. The "Most 

 Blessed and Holy Archbishop of Carlowitz " is 

 Metropolitan, with the title of patriarch. This 

 Church contains, in all, eleven Sees. VIII. 

 Mount Sinai. This Church has only one bishop, 

 " The Most Blessed Archbishop of Sinai." IX. 

 Montenegro. This Church, likewise, forms a 

 single diocese under the "Metropolitan of Scan- 

 deria and the Sea-Coast, Archbishop of Tsett- 

 ineke." *X. Greece. This Church is governed 

 by the "Holy Hellenic Synod," at Athens, 

 which is composed of the archbishop of Ath- 

 ens as president, and four other prelates, who 

 change every year. This Church numbers the 

 following twenty-four archbishoprics and bish- 

 ops : 1, Athens; 2, Thebes and Livadia; 3, 

 Chalcis ; 4, Carystia ; 5, Phthiotis ; 6, Phocis ; 

 7, Acarnania ; 8, Naupactns ; 9, Argslide ; 10, 

 Corinth; 11, Hydra; 12, Patras and Elis; 13, 

 Kalavrita; 14, Mantinia; 15, Gortyna; 16, 

 Messenia; 17, Triphyllia; 18, Monembasia and 

 Sparta; 19, Gythium; 20, Octylon ; 21, Lyra 

 and Lenos ; 22, Andros and Zea ; 23, Naxps ; 

 24, Thera.. In consequence of the annexation 

 of the Ionian Isles to Greece, the Sees of these 

 islands will, of course, be separated from the 

 patriarch of Constantinople, and placed 

 the Hellenic Synod. 



