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Title: A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810
Year: 1813 (1810s)
Authors: Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869
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Publisher: London, Printed for James Cawthorn, Cockspur Street and sold by Sharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh and N. Mahon, Dublin
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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-Priesthood, your Beatitude—•Π«ν«/>οτ») <ns, Μχχοιρίοττι ο-» ;—Priests, Your Holiness—Αγιότητα. <r«. The last edition but one of the Bibliotheca Graeca, contains, in vol. vr,p. 748, a list of the Patriarchs since the last conquest of Constantinople. Thehistory of Cyrillus Lucaris, is the history of the Patriarchate. A.D. 1600,Cyrillus Lucaris Pro• Patriarch of Alexandria; A.D. 1621, Cyrill. LucarisPatriarch (having been before Pro-Patriarch) for one year; A.D. 1624, Cyrill.Lucaris restored, for eight years; A.D. 1632, the same person a third time re-elected for one year and two months; A.D. 1633, the same a fourth time re-chosen, for one year ; A. D. 1637, a fifth time, but after one year, strangled. t Under the head of modern architecture, Letter xxxv. vol. iii. Mons. DeGuys talks of Santa Sophia, and the aqueducts built in the time of the GreekEmperors, near Constantinople. All his detail about the arts in modern Greecetells nothing 91
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