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Every year on January 30, the Christian Church jointly honors the three Great Ecumenical Fathers and Teachers, the Great Kingdom, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom.
In Greece they are honored as patrons of education and letters.
The feast of the Three Hierarchs was introduced into the church in the mid-11th century by the Eucharistic scholar and metropolitan Ioannis Mavropodas (1000-1070), during the reign of Emperor Constantine IX the Gladiator (1000-1055).
The purpose of Mavropodas was to present these three prominent personalities of Christianity as the preeminent advocates of Trinitarian doctrine and to put an end to the fractionalism that plagued the church body as to which of the three hierarchs was the most important.
It is characteristic that at that time a large number of priests and believers were divided into three groups: the Ioanites, the Gregorians, and the Basilites.
The feast of the Three Hierarchs, in addition to the ecclesiastical character, also has a teacher in our class. It is considered the festival of Greek letters, since the Three Hierarchs contributed to the development of Christian teaching, along with the development of ancient Greek letters. The educational character of the feast of the Three Hierarchs was established on August 9, 1841 by the academic council of the University of Othonion (now National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and was celebrated for the first time on January 30, 1842. In the following years, the celebration expanded to all education.
Introit
The three greatest educators of the triple Deity, the universe that radiates the doctrines of the uncles by fire, the rivers of wisdom that melt, the construction of all the theology of Namas, destroying them, Basil the Great and the theologian Gregory, all in all λόγων αυτών ερασταί, συνελθόντες ύμνοις τιμήσωμεν · αυτούς γαρ τη Τριάδι, υπέρ υμών αεί πυσσβ.
Source: SanSimera.gr
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