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SUMMARY
The period 1839-1923 marks for the Ecumenical Patriarchate a series of radical changes, which derive from the contemporary Tanzimat reforms, the most important of which was the validation of the General Regulations in 1860, an act which established new balances within the Patriarchate, but also from the conflict between Venizelist and monarchist Greeks during the 20th century. The former conflict established, in the place of the ecumenism, which was consolidated as the prevailing ideology of the Patriarchate already from the 19th century, a model of nationalization of the Church which was compatible to the “Great Idea” of the era. |
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