The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's own explainer page, stating that the local Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul has fallen from roughly 135,000 in 1923 to only a few thousand today, and describing the Archons' own advocacy and support for the Patriarchate as a duty owed to it rather than an act of charity.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are the Patriarchate's own chartered lay order (an honorary rank conferred directly by the Ecumenical Patriarch), so this is the order's own self-description rather than the Patriarchate's own voice narrowly, read in full directly. States plainly: "The city's native Greek Orthodox community, which numbered roughly 135,000 after the 1923 population exchange, has dwindled to only a few thousand today following the 1955 Istanbul pogrom, the 1964 expulsions, and decades of legal pressure," and frames the Archons' own purpose in the words "we treat advocacy not as charity but as a duty owed to the Mother Church." The page states no specific dollar figures and no statement of how the Patriarchate is materially funded day-to-day; it is used here only for what it actually states, the demographic collapse of the local flock and the Archons' own framing of their support as an owed duty rather than charity. Citation
PublisherArchons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (archons.org)
URLhttps://archons.org/what-is-the-ecumenical-patriarchate-leadership-of-the-eastern-orthodox-church/
Source Typereligious body
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