@article{Αλεξανδρής_1983, title={Η απόπειρα δημιουργίας τουρκορθόδοξης εκκλησίας στην Καππαδοκία, 1921-1923}, volume={4}, url={https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/deltiokms/article/view/2420}, DOI={10.12681/deltiokms.39}, abstractNote={<p>As the Greek-Turkish national rivalry spread to Asia Minor during<br />the Anatolian war of 1920-1922, the Cappadocian Greeks found themselves,<br />for the first time in centuries, at the midst of military hostilities.<br />It was during this period that the striking cultural, economic and demographic<br />renaissance of the Karamanli Greeks came to an abrupt and<br />sorrow end. Anxious to put an end to the links between the Greeks<br />of the Phanar and Cappadocian Orthodox, the Kemalist Turks tried<br />to sever the religious ties of Asia Minor with the Ecumenical Patriarchate.<br />To achieve this end they employed the services of an ambitious Anatolian<br />priest Papa Eftim (Efthymios Karahissaridis). Papa Eftim was<br />a Karamanli Greek Orthodox from Akdagmadeni, near Yozgat. He was<br />ordained in 1915 and when Gervasios Sarisitis, the archbishop of Angora,<br />moved to the Phanar in 1918, he assumed the title of locum tenons for<br />the parish of Keskin. Relying on his powerful Kemalist connections,<br />Papa Eftim managed to coerse the three Greek Orthodox prelates, who<br />were stranded in the nationalist-held zone, into convening a congress<br />at the monastery of St. John at Zincidere, Caesarea (Kayseri). This<br />congress proclaimed the foundation of a Turkish Orthodox Church in<br />Anatolia. While declaring its independence from the Phanar, the Turkish<br />Orthodox Church proposed to promote harmonious relations between<br />the Muslims and Orthodox of Anatolia. The new breakaway church enjoyed not only the blessing but also the direct encouragement</p><p>of the Ankara government, for it was compatible with the Kemalist<br />desire to turkify the Anatolian Christians. The basis of this church,<br />however was destroyed when the Karamanli Greeks were included in<br />the exchange of populations.</p>}, journal={Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών}, author={Αλεξανδρής Αλέξης}, year={1983}, month={Ιανουαρίου}, pages={159–210} }