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From Samos to Soho - The Unorthodox Life of Joseph Georgirenes, a Greek Archbishop

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Born on the small Greek island of Melos, Joseph Georgirenes became a monk on Mount Athos and was consecrated as Archbishop of Samos in 1666. Five years later he left his diocese and travelled to Europe, visiting Rome, Paris, London and Oxford. Scholars such as Antoine Galland in Paris and Thomas Smith in Oxford invited this Greek Orthodox priest to take part in their theological discussions. Until now, Georgirenes has been best known for having established the first Greek Orthodox church in London in Soho, and for publishing a detailed account of the condition and practices of the Orthodox church living under Ottoman rule. This booklet - A Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos and Mount Athos - was published in London in 1677 and is republished here for the first time in England. Caught up in the Popish Plot, Georgirenes left England in 1682 and it was not known what happened to him. For the first time, however, this biography reveals the extraordinary further adventures of this much-travelled priest.

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CONTENTS: Melos: Between Two Cultures (1630s and 1640s) - Mount Athos (1650s) - Jonathan Harris: Constantinople (1661-1667) - Samos and Ikaria (1667-1671) - Patmos, Tuscany and Rome (1671-1675) - Marseilles and Paris (1675-1676) - London and the Greek Church (1676-1678) - The Popish Plot (1678-1679) - Exclusion from England (1679-1682) - John-Paul A. Ghobrial: Epilogue: The New World (1682-c.1700) - Introduction to the Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos and Mount Athos - Nicholas Richardson: Translation of the Dedication - Facsimile reproduction of the text. A Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos and Mount Athos, by Joseph Georgirenes, published in London 1677.

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John Penrose Barron was a classical scholar and Philhellene, educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was Professor of Greek at King¿s College London and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies and, subsequently, Master of St Peter¿s College, Oxford. His DPhil thesis on the history of Samos in the Archaic period led him to Georgirenes¿ account of the island of Samos published in 1677, which he found in the library of Balliol College. John Barron had completed all but one chapter of this biography when he died in 2008.

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«This book or document is in any case also a truly European story. There-fore, it should not only be read by theologians, historians, but also by today's sociologists and even politicians.»
(Chris Vonck, Acta Comparanda 3/2018)

Product details

Authors Caroline Barron, John Penrose Barron
Assisted by Andrew Louth (Editor), Luc Melville (Editor), Lucy Melville (Editor), David Ricks (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2017
 
EAN 9783034317887
ISBN 978-3-0-3431788-7
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 152 mm x 23 mm x 224 mm
Weight 590 g
Illustrations 137 Abb.
Series Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies
Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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