{"id":2660,"date":"2024-12-05T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/ekdiloseis\/rev-christos-theologos-papadopoulos\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:55:11","slug":"rev-christos-theologos-papadopoulos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/100-people-who-made-history\/rev-christos-theologos-papadopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Christos Theologos Papadopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 100% + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-four\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:10px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:10px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h4 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Benefactor<\/h4><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Christos Theologos Papadopoulos graduated from Anatolia College in 1893 and, two years later, completed his studies at the Missionary School of Merzifon. After graduation, he served as pastor of the Protestant church in Thyateira (Akhisar) and later emigrated to the United States with his family. In 1907, he founded the first Greek Protestant church in Chicago.<br \/>In October 1894, when Turkish troops reached the gates of the school in Sassoun (a region in Armenia), Rev. Papadopoulos courageously stood before them, preventing them from entering. Overnight, he and his family sewed an American flag, which he raised, declaring that they were under the protection of the United States of America. However, the wave of massacres soon reached Merzifon on November 15 of the same year.<br \/>This handmade American flag, a symbol of courage and protection, was later donated by the Papadopoulos family to Anatolia College, where it is preserved to this day. It stands as a lasting testament to Papadopoulos\u2019s commitment to peace and human dignity.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-people-who-made-history"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100.anatolia.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}