Author : Panteleymon Anastasakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823266548
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Church of Greece Under Axis Occupation by : Panteleymon Anastasakis
Download or read book The Church of Greece Under Axis Occupation written by Panteleymon Anastasakis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the response of the Church of Greece to enemy occupation during World War II. Historically the Greek people looked to the church to help them preserve faith and culture and expected the leader of the church to serve as an ethnarch. In some instances, church policy played an important role in the very physical survival of the Greek nation. During the Axis occupation, the Greek church, under the leadership of Archbishop Damaskinos, intervened to mitigate the harshest of Axis policies, although these interventions had limited effects and required distasteful compromises.