By: Isa Almisry

Isa Almisry — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:55:43 +0000

I wonder if this could be connected to John Cavel, chaplain to the English ambassador to the Porte 1670-7, publishing his “Some account of the present Greek Church,: with reflections on their present doctrine and discipline, and the rest of their seven pretended sacraments, compared with Jack Goar’s notes upon the Greek ritual or ” in 1722
http://books.google.com/books?id=998GAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
on the heals of a correspondence between the non-Juror bishops of the Anglican church which commenced in 1716 (and Cavel was involved) and was ongoing when the “Russian Catechism” was published
http://books.google.com/books?id=V7g_AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22The+Orthodox+Church+of+the+East+in+the+eighteenth+century%22&source=bl&ots=jsH8LpeT5L&sig=McY9vorvi_T17LQ9hEHWqGocQEc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tPA2UOqwHuaoywG5oYG4BA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Orthodox%20Church%20of%20the%20East%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20century%22&f=false
itself following Orthodox hierarchs and Greek students attending English universities starting in 1698, and an ensuing attempt by the Vatican through the King of France and Sorbonne to entice them into their own camp.

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