This one is very interesting. Greece`s government officials protesting Istanbul patriarchy for electing Macedonian clerics for Macedonia in 1890!!! This is another indication of Greece`s discontent behaviour with patriarchy in Istanbul but you know, they got along laters and Istanbul patriarchy appointed Greek clerics like Germanos Karavangelis to the Macedonia few years later.
Also, as early as the 1890, they say, "Macedonia is the center of newborn Hellenism and clerics in Macedonia should be Greeks instead of Bulgarians" and they openly express their intention to annex Macedonia 23 years before they realized it.
This one is also interesting and rather funny. Now Serbians says that these newly appointed Macedonian clerics are not Bulgarians but Serbs since they are not from Bulgaria but Macedonia and Macedonians are Serbian people, not Bulgars as Greece says!!!. Nevertheless, they say that they will cooperate with Greeks in promotion of dissatisfaction against Turkish rule in Macedonia...
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