Revival hopes grow for long-closed Greek Orthodox seminary off Istanbul
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Revival hopes grow for long-closed Greek Orthodox seminary off Istanbul
Located on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands, the Halki seminary opened in the mid-19th century and was the main theological school for the Eastern Orthodox Church until it was closed under a Turkish law in 1971. Despite decades of pressure on Ankara to reopen it -- led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, leader of the world's 260 million Orthodox Christians and a graduate of the seminary -- the school has remained closed. But the sem…
#IMGLP-2-#Situated in Heybeliada, one of the nine islands of the archipelago of "Prinkiponюsia" in Greek, the Halki Seminary, opened in the mid-19th century, was the main school of theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church until its closing in...
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