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The Metropolis of Kastoria (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Καστοριάς) is one of the metropolises of the New Lands in Greece that are within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but de facto are administered for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople.
Kastoria is also a Latin Catholic titular see, and in the early 20th century hosted a Bulgarian Orthodox bishopric.




History


At first a suffragan of Thebes, the bishopric was, at least by the reign of Basil II in the early 11th century, the first suffragan see of the Archbishopric of Ohrid. Le Quien mentions only three bishops, all of the period after the East–West Schism: Joasaph in 1564, Hierotheus, who went to Rome about 1650, and Dionysius Mantoucas; but that list can easily be extended.
In the early 20th century the town was the seat of a Bulgarian Orthodox bishopric with 2,224 families, 32 priests, and 22 churches.
Today, for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Church of Greece the see is the Metropolis of Kastoria and Exarchate for Upper Macedonia, in the so-called "New Lands" of Greece.
On October 3, 2019 the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople resolved to glorify seven New Martyrs of Kastoria, at the proposal of Metropolitan Seraphim (Papakostas) of Kastoria, including the following:

New Martyr Markos Markoulis of Kleisoura, Kastoria, hanged in Argos Orestiko (1598)
New Martyr Ioannis Noultzos, martyred together with his brother and brother-in-law in Kastoria (1696)
New Martyr George of Kastoria, martyred by the Hagarenes in the Acarnania region.
New Hieromartyr Vasilios Kalapaliki, priest of Chiliodendro, Kastoria (gr) (1902)
New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), Protosyncellus of Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis (1921)
The "Synaxis of the Saints of Kastoria" is a moveable feast that is held on the Third Sunday of November.




Greek Orthodox Metropolitans


Kallinikos (Georgatos) 2021
Seraphim (Papakostas) 1996–2020
Gregorios III (Papoutsopoulos) 1985-1996
Gregorios II (Maistros) 1974-1985
Dorotheos (Giannaropoulos) 1958-1973
Nikiphoros II (Papasideris) 1936-1958
Ioakeim (Leptidis) 1911-1931
Ioakeim (Vaxevanidis) 1908-1911
Germanos (Karavangelis) 1900-1908
Athanasios (Kapouralis) 1899-1900
Philaretos (Vafeidis) 1889-1899
Gregorios (Drakopoulos) 1888-1889
Kyrillos (Dimitriadis) 1882-1888
Constantine (Isaakidis) 1880-1882
Hilarion 1874-1879
Nicephorus I 1841-1874
Athanasions (Mitilinaios) 1836-1841




Active Greek Orthodox Monasteries






= For men

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Dormition of the Virgin Mary - Panagia Mavriotissa
Agion Anargyroi Melissotopos
Agia Paraskevi Vasileiadou
Agios Georgios Eptahoriou




= For women

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Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin of Kleisoura
Saint Nicholas Tsirilovou
Panagias Faneromenis
Monastery of St. George Melanthiou




Latin bishopric


Some ten Latin bishops of Castoria are known from the 13th to the 15th centuries.




= Latin titular see

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Castoria is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular bishopric since the 15th century.
It is vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

Silvestro de Benedetti, OSBVall (1432.01.23 – ?)
Francis Sexello, OFM (1507.01.07 – ?)
Juan López (1520.09.22 – ?)
François Daussayo, OESA (1531.03.18 – ?)
Gedeon van der Gracht (1536.01.10 – ?)
Charles Pinello, OESA (1546.04.16 – ?)
Esteban de Esmir (1639.04.03 – 1641.01.05)
Johannes van Neercassel, CO (1662.06.23 – 1686.06.06)
Gioachino Maria de’ Oldo (1725.03.03 – 1726.12.09)
Bishop-elect Paolino Sandulli, OSB (1727.03.17 – ?)
John Mary of St. Thomas Albertini, OCD (1780.12.23 – 1783?)
Charles Lamothe, MEP (1793.02.05 – 1816.05.22)
Jean-Jacques Guérard, MEP (1816.05.23 – 1823.06.18)
Francisco Ferreira de Azevedo (1820.05.29 – 1844.07.25)
Jean-François Ollivier, MEP (1824.04.06 – 1827.05.27)
Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard, MEP (1828.03.21 – 1838.07.05)
John Fennelly (1841.04.30 – 1868.01.23)
Johann Jakob Kraft (1868.09.24 – 1884.06.09)
Francesco Gašparić (1884.11.13 – 1897)
Gaspar Felicjan Cyrtowt (1897.07.21 – 1910.04.07)
Marie-Augustine Chapuis, MEP (1911.03.06 – 1913.05.21)
Ferenc Gossman (1913.07.01 – 1931.10.11)
Joaquín Alcaide y Bueso, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1931.12.15 – 1943.02.21)
Stanislas Courbe (1943.06.22 – 1971.04.22)




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References






Bibliography


Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9781434458766.




External links


(in Greek) Ιερά Μητρόπολη Καστοριάς. (Metropolis of Kastoria).

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