Description
This course will offer a general introduction to the place of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (EP) of Constantinople in the Orthodox Church from the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire (1453) to the 20th century. It will concentrate on the relation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Ancient Patriarchates and the New Patriarchates and autocephalous Orthodox Churches which emerged during this period. Special attention will be given to the 19th and 20th centuries and church problems, such as Slavophilism, ethnophyletism, diaspora, ecumenism, and conciliarity.