1. Χρύσανθος (Φιλιππίδης), αρχιεπίσκοπος Αθηνών, Η Εκκλησία Τραπεζούντος (Athens 1936), p. 532, reprinted from Αρχείον Πόντου 4-5 (1933). 2. After the Ottoman conquest of Athens (1458) and the removal of Isidoros, the metropolitan of the city, the next person known to have taken the office during the end of the 15th century is Neofytos. Kambouroglou and Philadelpheus refer to a metropolitan of Athens who is not mentioned by name and signs a synodal act of the year 1465. Philadelpheus believes that the former, as any other metropolitan of Athens during these years, would remain in Constantinople and would not move to Athens, but this is a mere hypothesis. See Καμπούρογλου, Δ., Μνημεία της Ιστορίας των Αθηναίων: Τουρκοκρατία, περίοδος πρώτη 1458-1687, vol. II (Athens 1890), p. 145-148; Φιλαδελφεύς, Θ., Ιστορία των Αθηνών επί Τουρκοκρατίας από του 1400 μέχρι του 1800, vol. I (Athens 1902), p. 219-220. The first modern scholar locating Dorotheos is Μανουήλ Γεδεών, «Ημίγνωστοι Σελίδες της Ιστορίας των Αθηναίων», Θεολογία 5 (1927), p. 120-121. It is very possible that the anonymous metropolitan of Athens in 1465 is Dorotheos, the later metropolitan of Trebizond. 3. As we read in the election act of Dorotheos: “…considering unjust to leave this city leaderless and unprotected, something which the ruler also disliked, he ordered that a spiritual shepherd, protector and teacher should be appointed there, for the sake of the instruction and benefit of the soul of the people living there”, Χρύσανθος (Φιλιππίδης), αρχιεπίσκοπος Αθηνών, Η Εκκλησία Τραπεζούντος (Αθήναι, Εστία 1936), p. 532, reprinted from Αρχείον Πόντου 4-5 (1933). |