Volume ΙΙ - 1948

Author Category Volume Page Year Language Fanourakis Ε. PAPERS AND STUDIES 2 109 - 128 1948 Greek Title Unpublished ecclesiastical documents from the period of Turkish rule, deposited in Heraklion Museum (continued from p. 504 of Vol. I, part 1) Summary PDF Continuing the publication of sources of Cretan ecclesiastical history with documents of the period 1831-1835, the following texts are published with a critical commentary: the synodic letter by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Constantine I, exhorting Orthodox Greeks not to abandon Crete; synodic letters concerning the election of the new metropolitan Meletius Nikoletakis and the regulation of his income and rights; encyclicals on Meletius’ registration for the regular publication of newspapers by the palace and the weekly Greek edition of the palace newspaper; patriarchal letters on the settlement of debts by the bishops of Iera, Petra, Lambi and Kissamos; and a synodic letter forbidding the execution of religious ceremonies by priests who had come from Greece and advocating their removal from the island.