Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. After the Conquest of Constantinople: 1. Ottoman gains and the Catholic response; 2. The Ottoman attack upon Catholics in the Balkans and Greece; 3. The Catholics of Armenia and Syria come under Ottoman rule; 4. The Ottoman advance into Palestine and Egypt; Part II. The Golden Age of the Missions: 5. The growth of French influence in Istanbul; 6. The missions come under the congregation for the propagation of the faith; 7. The Balkans and Greece; 8. The Orient and the Latin missions; 9. Palestine, Egypt and North Africa; Part III. The Eighteenth Century: 10. The eighteenth century in Istanbul; 11. The Balkans after the peace of Karlowitz; 12. The Catholic Armenians; 13. The near Eastern churches; 14. Palestine and Egypt; Part IV. From Expansion to Disaster: 15. The Catholics of Istanbul from the nineteenth century to the proclamation of the Turkish republic; 16. The Vatican council, the Eastern churches and the papacy; 17. The Balkan churches; 18. The Armenian Catholic community; 19. The Maronites after the reign of Mahmut II; 20. The Catholic Melkites; 21. Syrian Catholics and the Chaldean church; 22. The Catholics of the Holy Land and Egypt; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.