Gregory V of Constantinople
Prince Islands then Mount Athos in 1810, reelected 1818 |
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Gregory V (
Biography
Born in
At the onset of the
Directly after celebrating the solemn
Influence
The brutal murder of Gregory V, especially on the day of Pascha, shocked and infuriated the Greeks, and Orthodox Russia. It also caused protests in the rest of Europe and reinforced the movement of Philhellenism. There are references that during the Greek War of Independence, many revolutionaries engraved on their swords the name of Gregory, seeking revenge.
Dionysios Solomos, in his "Hymn to Liberty", which later became the Greek national anthem, also mentions the hanging of the patriarch in some stanzas.
Jewish–Greek animosity
According to several accounts, after Gregory's death, his body, along with those of other executed prelates, was turned over to the city's Jews, who dragged it through the streets and threw it into the sea.
In Odessa, then part of the Russian Empire, local Greeks committed what some sources consider the first Russian pogrom killing 14 Jews on the basis that Jews had taken part in Gregory's lynching.[6]
Gallery
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Saint Peter's Gate at the Patriarchate. Gregory V was lynched here. Since then the Gate has never been opened again.
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Painting byBosphorus.
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Statue of Grigorios (University of Athens) by Georgios Fytalis
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The shrine of Patriarch Grigorios (Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens)
References
- ^ Metallinos, George (2019-09-03). "Γρηγόριος Ε´ (α) [10 Ἀπρ.]" [Gregory V (1) [10 Apr.]]. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (in Greek). Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- OCLC 1246726205.
- ^ OL 4433205M – via Internet Archive.
- ^ OL 22769720M.
- OL 3802339M.
- ^ Parkansky, Ariel. "Anti-Semitism and Pogroms". JewishGen. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.