Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople

Constantine VI. (. Konstantinos VI) ( Araboghlou ) (* 1859, † November 28, 1930 ) was from 1924 to 1925, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. He was expelled by the Turkish authorities of the country, although the whereabouts of the Patriarchate at his ancestral seat at the Phanar on the Golden Horn of Istanbul, by the Treaty of Lausanne ( 1923) was covered by international law between the victorious powers of World War I and Turkey.

Greece brought the expulsion of Constantine VI. by Turkey before the League of Nations and the International Court of Justice. The dispute was settled after that the Patriarch could be persuaded to abdicate. The Turkish state confiscated most of the real-estate and landed property of patriarchy. The Turkish Republic recognizes the Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel officially only as a religious institution of the living on their territory, the Greek minority and ignored all reaching beyond their borders gesamtorthodoxen functions of the ecumenical throne.

  • Patriarch
  • Person ( Turkish history )
  • Born in 1859
  • Died in 1930
  • Man
  • Greek (Ottoman Empire)
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