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Phanar

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Phanar or Fanar (both: făn`ər, fənär`), Greek quarter of Constantinople (now Istanbul Istanbul , city (1990 pop. 6,748,435), capital of Istanbul prov., NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus at its entrance into the Sea of Marmara. Its name was officially changed from Constantinople to Istanbul in 1930; before A.D. 330 it was known as Byzantium.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Under the Ottoman Empire, Phanar was the residence of the privileged Greek families, called

Phanariots. They came into prominence in the late 17th cent. and held influential positions until the Greek war of independence began in 1821. The city is still the site of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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When Patriarch Athenagoras, on the occasion of the visit of the pope to the Phanar on July 25, 1967, addressed him as 'the successor of Peter, the first in honor among us, the one who has the presidency in love,' we hear from the mouth of the great church leader the essential content of the first millennium's statement about the primacy--and Rome must demand no more than this.
Orthodox relations by Ryan, Jerry / Commonweal
 
 
 
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