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His All-Holiness '''Anthimus IV''' was the Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods during the mid nineteenth century, from 1840 to 1841 and from 1848 to 1852. 

Patr. Anthimus came into office confronted with the political declaration of the autonomy of the Orthodox in the newly independent nation of Greece from the [[Church of Constantinople]] that followed its obtaining freedom from the [[Ottoman empire]] in 1833. In 1833, the first Greek parliament, sitting in the first capital of Greece in Nauplion, declared the [[Church of Greece]] independent from the Ecumenical Patriarch. Upon becoming [[patriarch]], Anthimus, following his predecessors, refused to acknowledge the declaration. However, in 1850, Patr. Anthimus published a [[Tomos]] granting a limited self-government of which the Church of Greece took no notice. Later, relations were regularized under which some links with the Church of Constantinople were retained. 

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{{succession|
before=Gregory VI|
title=[[List of Patriarchs of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]]|
years= 1840-1841|
after=Anthimus V}}
{{succession|
before=[[Anthimus VI of Constantinople|Anthimus VI]]|
title=Patriarch of Constantinople|
years=1848-1852|
after=[[Germanus IV of Constantinople|Germanus IV]]}}
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==Source==
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3278320/Patriarchs-of-Constantinople, The Patriarchs of Constantinople by Claude DeLaval Cobham, C.M.G., Adrian Fortescue, Introduction I, Cambridge: at the University Press 1911]

==External link==
*[[Wikipedia:Church_of_Greece]]

[[Category:Bishops]]
[[Category:19th-century bishops]]
[[Category:Patriarchs of Constantinople]]