Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1821–1924)

According to this view, the Church, in the role of a latter-day Noah's Ark, saved the Greek nation in the centuries of the Turkish and Western "deluge" following the fall of the eastern Roman empire in 1453.

The Orthodox Church, by protecting the true faith against both Muslim and Latin temporal princes in the centuries of foreign rule, preserved Greek identity and kept the Greek nation from being assimilated by the nations of its foreign rulers.

Indeed, many Orthodox prelates assumed a leading role in insurgent Greece and played an important part not only in ecclesiastical but also in political and military matters.

Following Independence, a Latin prince and his Western advisers severed the links that had united the Church of Greece with the Ecumenical Patriarchate and placed the Church under the authority of his temporal power.

[1] History Church Fathers Greek War of Independence Modern Greece

Bp. Germanos of Old Patras blessing the Greek banner at Agia Lavra , 25 March 1821. Theodoros Vryzakis (oil painting, 1851).
Flag of Greece (1822–1978). In January 1822, the First National Assembly at Epidaurus adopted this design to replace the multitude of local revolutionary flags then in use.
The Exodus of Messolonghi by Theodoros Vryzakis .
Church of Our Lady of Tinos .
Portrait of Theoklitos Farmakidis , Greek Orthodox priest who was a liberal theologian and spokesman for the ideas of A. Korais and the Greek Enlightenment . [ 38 ]
The monk Christophoros Panayiotopoulos (Papoulakos), c. 1770–1861, popular missionary and defender of Orthodoxy .
The expansion of Greece from 1832 to 1947, showing territories awarded to Greece in 1919 but lost in 1923.
Konstantinos Oikonomos (1780–1857), Greek presbyter, oikonomos , scholar and traditionalist.
Apostolos Makrakis (1831–1905). Greek lay theologian, preacher, ethicist, philosopher and writer, and a leader of the awakening movement in post-revolutionary Greece.
The Great School of the Nation .
Nicholaos Gysis , " The Secret school ", Oil painting, 1885/86.
Map of the Greek Orthodox Metropolises in Asia Minor (Anatolia) c. 1880.
Monastery of Agios Nectarios, built c. 1904–1910 by the Bishop of Pentapoleos Nektarios; still under construction today, it is one of the largest churches in Greece.
Ethnomartyr Metr. Photios Kalpidis of Korytsa and Premeti (1902–1906).
Hieromartyr Aimilianos Lazaridis , Metropolitan of Grevena (†1911).
Metropolitan Theocletus I (Minopoulos) (1902–1917, 1920–1922).
Saint Nektarios of Aegina , Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina (†1920).
Saint Chrysostomos metropolitan of Smyrna (1910–1922).