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The Medieval Church · c. 1455

The Confession of Faith to Mehmed II

Gennadios Scholarios · c. 1400–c. 1473

What it is

A summary of Christian doctrine written at the sultan's request by the first patriarch appointed after the conquest, phrased to be intelligible to a Muslim reader.

Why it lasted

The founding document of the Orthodox church's arrangement with the Ottoman state, which shaped it for four hundred years.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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