Patriarch Bartholomew: We owe our hospitals to Byzantium
November 6th, 2009 by Ellopos Blog | Mail a friend
How many people know that the modern hospital originated in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire? It is widely acknowledged that the first hospitals were created in Cappadocia, sometime around 370 A.D. by St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. There had been a tradition since ::More


