The cancellation of the traditional influence networks in Ecumenical Patriarchate in the beginning of the Cold War: the patriarchal election of 1948

The present work of particular historical interest focuses on the patriarchal election of 1948, when Athenagoras Spyros was elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in place of the resigned Patriarch Maximus V. In this case, the decline or rather the cancellation of the popular networks, which traditionally played a decisive role in the matters of the election of the Ecumenical Patriarchs until then, and the emergence of new poles of power, now of a political nature, directly connected to the new international political framework established after B World War, the Cold War.