New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-14
REIGGOrS TROrRLE IN MAcEDONIA


The news from Macedonia is also of an alarming
character. The secret societies there have decided
upon a rising and have collected arms and money
for that purpose.
1t is said that the Turkish Government is arming
the ssulman population and sending Asatic rcgi-
j. clearly religious one, Of which correspondent
Of The London Standard" recently wrote from Bel
grade as follows.
while the attention of Europe IS fixed on Con-
stantinOplc. and on the work Of the Ambas sadorS
great rIropta public of the ecccsasticai disorder
which has been for some time going on In Mace
donia. II H. true that within the last few weeks
the sonucTs Of kilograms from Constantinople Ath-
ems. Belgrade and Vienna have tried 10 arouse the
success This IS the more TO be regretted as the
conflict Of the churches in Macedonia marks in
shows how fcvcrsh is the condition of that prov
lncc. 70 make thc story which wish TO tell more
Al th- time Of the Turkish invasion that began in
kan Peninsula occupied by four independent
chIrch organizatons-yz. ~, the Patriarchate Of
Constantnoplc, ruling the Greek churches in Thra,
cia the .Itgean LittOral. Southern Macedonia, and
Greece; 2D the Archbishoprlc Of Ochrda, ruling the
Greek and Runanian GhurcheS III EpiruS, Ihessaly,
Southwestern Macedonia; 80, the Patriarchate Of
Trnoya ruling the Bulgarian churches on both
e.. lpelV rulias the SGrvlan churches IN Northern
ana Northern Macedonia. The Turks. when thoy
destroyed the political existence OF the Creek, Bul
garian and Servian empires left the ecclesiastical
ORGANIZATIONS undisturbed. under the condition that
ca IN of the four independent Christian churches In
The peninsula should pay to the Porte an annual
tribute in hard cash. The Greek Patriarchs Of Con
stantiUOple who had never recognized the inde-
pendence Of the other three sees took advantage 81
their almost daily intercourse with the Porte to
obtain At different times and from several Sultans
the permission to take In rent those three patri-
archates by one. To this very day the Arch
biehopric of Orhrla and the Patrialcnate Of Pech
are inscribed in the registers of the Turkish Minis
Try Of Finance as separate let for ndeh-
mite time to the Greek Patriagahate Of CONSTANT
T P9P for ART s . rea' q hnyhoG only by
those three secs that the Patriarchs Of CONSTANT
nopIe acquired the right Of appointing the bishops
OF almost all the doceses in the Balkan Peninsula.
THE GREEK BISHOPS POSITION.
"t-p to the creation OF the Greek Kingdom tho
appointment Of Greek bishops TO the numerous
bshoprcs in the peninsula was generally financial
business only. The situation was not dlgnihed, but
It was tolcrable The Greek bishops endeayored to
Patriarchate and the Porte for the diocese. and the
people Of the diocese were quite accustomed to be
perpetually mulctcd by the Greek prelatcs as well
as by the Turkish pachas; Sirce the establishment
81 ' bas CHANGED The Creek bishops did not think
so much about cnrlching themselves personally as
about serving the Greek National cause by estab-
hing creek schools and introducing the Greek
service even I'm the Sayonian doceses inhabited eH
cusivcly by liulRarians or serViahs. me hhaheli
exacions might have been tolerated indefinitely but
not the attempt TO denationa!ize those two slayonic
rgtts Of N ,tionalities reached tho mountains
aud the valleys Of the Balkan Peninsula. 49,
"The opposition Of the Slav0nic populations 10 the
Greek bishops became so oiiteT hat s3o1y ater IN
.iueau he BIl-a.Idns itd Dy l'!dRdH LthhOlI
M ntilh1ncn were seriously contemplating turning
i,[r,o catholics Il on.y the Pope would promise TO
arroinf Bulgarian bishops In the Bulgarian dloceses
nd arprovr the Church services being read IN the
Slavonc. The Russian AmbasSadDr 70 1onstail-
,o,, had some difficulty in digsuadng the Bulgarian
iraders nom that desperate step. which would have
broken mos valuable connecting INK between nus
-, ,nf B.lsaria. Indeed he could 0n.y do 50 by
tha the car would cndcavoT 10 obtain sat
i.f1cti1n FOR SlavOnic Interests Inc Rnssans KEPT
br y1d 50 thoroughly that In 1870 General lgnatieff
s''croc he'd n establishing the Bulgarian ENarchate.
-, under s Jurisdiction all the bshoprics OF the
1T bulgarian paularchate OF TrnOyo ana Of the
bh. shoprlc OF Ochidra, with some diJcescs or tho
-, ,,t,r,h1,c of P,rh thereby extending the in
. .rr. II the independent bulgarian Church from
ihc Danuic H. the Aegean ana from me BLACK sea
to the Adriauc. , - ,,,.,
roe secession OF nearly four millions Of Bulgar.ans
a,1 ,,arv materially and morally IN