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Preliminary order of the Legislative to the Executive, by which approval is given to appoint commissioners in the school of Dimitsana «because it faces the risk of being abolished» (Corinth, 24 February 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 1, no 82 [p. 82] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
IT RECOGNIZES AS MUCH THE LO- C A L as the wider contribution of the school and is acclaims as purposeful to secure again its «or- derly» function. Worthy of note is that in the period
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of the Turkish Dominance, Dimitsana had been a centre of education, thanks to the School of the Philosophos Monastery and the Greek School of Dimitsana.
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Report of the Governor to the Senate about the maintenance of the Ecclesiastical School of the Zoodochos Pigi Monastery on the island of Poros (Nafplio, 3 February 1830)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 21, no. 24 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
IOANNIS KAPODISTRIAS, within the context of his ecclesiastical policy, took care to estab- lish the Ecclesiastical School on Poros, the administra- tion of which was undertaken by Nikolaos Chrysogelos as Secretary of the Ecclesiastics and Public Education. The School was housed in the monastery of Zoodo- chos Pigi and belonged to the schools funded by the government. The pupil population were boarders of 12- 18 years old, while students of older age were admit- ted with a small fee. The School evolved into a centre of ecclesiastical education of the Modern Greek state, since many clergymen graduated from it.
The deeply pious Governor had the vision of found- ing a Higher Theological Academy, along the lines of the corresponding Russian ones, and therefore im- mediately after his election he had asked the schol- ar clergyman and teacher of the Nation, Konstanti- nos Economus of the Economus, to draft a «Plan of Ecclesiastical Academy».
However, the difficult circumstances of the time and the lack of sufficient resources did not allow the im- plementation of the plan.