How are the Catholics and Orthodox in Constantinople doing?

[scapularkid8]

Just thinking about them after recently getting into some Turkish pop. The singer I like is Muslim or course, but I couldn’t help but think of the heavily Christian heritage Turkey holds. What’s the “state of the union” for Eastern Christians there I guess is what I’m wondering, if anyone knows?

 

[Aramis]

Based solely on distance-learned items:

1. Turkey restricts the wear of clerical attire off campus
2. Turkey requires that the Ecumenical Patriarch be Turkish-born
3. Turkey is a secular state with strong muslim influence
4. Non-muslims may not build (nor make extensive repairs to) places of worship

Catholics: Both Greek and Latin…

1. Latin rite not recognized; Latin parishes mostly on embassy and consulate grounds.
2. Syriac Catholic Church recognized (1)
3. Melkite Catholic Church recognized, but no longer present. (2)

Here’s a good essay or three
parapundit.com/archives/003918.html
countrystudies.us/turkey/39.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Catholic_Church

(1)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Catholic_Church
(2) mliles.com/melkite/indexmelkiteotherturkey.shtml

 

[rpp]

There have been a couple of priests murdered in Turkey in recent years, as well as a nun (if I remember correctly).

Then, of course, one cannot forget the Armenian Massacre early in the 20th century which was directly at Armenian Catholics.

 

[malphono]

Then, of course, one cannot forget the Armenian Massacre early in the 20th century which was directly at Armenian Catholics.

The sad events of the early 20th century against the Armenians were perpetrated against the Armenian people as a Christian group, irrespective of whether or not they were in union with Rome.

Further, let’s not forget that it wasn’t only the Armenians who were subjected to those horrors: The people of the Syriac Churches (both Catholic and Orthodox, were victims of the same violence. As well, the Christians of Lebanon (the Maronites in particular) were abused in various ways during the retreat of the Ottoman forces after their defeat in Arabia.

 

[Isa_Almisry]

The sad events of the early 20th century against the Armenians were perpetrated against the Armenian people as a Christian group, irrespective of whether or not they were in union with Rome.

Further, let’s not forget that it wasn’t only the Armenians who were subjected to those horrors: The people of the Syriac Churches (both Catholic and Orthodox, were victims of the same violence. As well, the Christians of Lebanon (the Maronites in particular) were abused in various ways during the retreat of the Ottoman forces after their defeat in Arabia.

A sure sign of that is when the border was drawn after WWI, all the patriarchs of Antioch no matter which moved across it to Syria.

 

[scapularkid8]

A sure sign of that is when the border was drawn after WWI, all the patriarchs of Antioch no matter which moved across it to Syria.

Sad actually that they can’t physically be in the city of their Patriarchate…

 

[Isa_Almisry]

Sad actually that they can’t physically be in the city of their Patriarchate…

Actually the Orthodox Patriarchate goes frequently to Antioch, and still has the cathedral there. The Syriac has not been in Antioch basically since Chalcedon, their patriarch actually was in the Yellow Monastery in Mesopotamia (still in the Turkish Republic) and I think the Syriac patriarchate visited recently.

As for the Catholic patriarchs, I don’t know if they have gone: all the churches I saw there under the pope of Rome were Latin.

 

[valient_Lucy]

The sad events of the early 20th century against the Armenians were perpetrated against the Armenian people as a Christian group, irrespective of whether or not they were in union with Rome.

There’s an Armenian Apostolic Church in a nearby neighborhood, with a small monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian genocide.