High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gregory V (????????? ??, born Georgios Angelopoulos) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St George, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1738. At the onset of Muslim massacres, as Ethnarch of the Orthodox Millet, Gregory V was blamed by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II for his inability to suppress the Christian Greek uprising, even though he had actually condemned the Greek revolutionary activities. He was taken out of the Patriarchal Cathedral on Easter Sunday, 1821, directly after celebrating the solemn Easter Liturgy, and hanged (in full Patriarchal vestments) for three days from the main gate of the Patriarchate compound by order of the Sultan; his body was then taken down and delivered to a squad of Turkish Jews who were forced to drag it through the streets and finally threw it into the Bosphorus.....

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