Metropolis of Derkoi

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The Metropolis of Derkoi (

San Stefano
). The cathedral is that of St. Parakevi in Therapia (Tarabya). The metropolitan is a member of the Patriarchal Synod. The present Metropolitan is Apostolos Daniilidis.

History

The village of Derkos/Derkoi (modern Durusu or Terkos) is attested since

Monophysites.[1] The Monophysite ascetic Zoora took refuge there after the Council of Constantinople (536).[2]

The see was a

Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.[1]

The anonymous archbishop of Derkoi co-signed the Acts of Union with the Catholic Church in July 1274. In 1285, Archbishop Constantine co-signed the

Nymphaion was appointed acting administrator (proedros).[1]

The see was restored by March 1324, when Archbishop Loukas is attested, serving at least until 1329. In the same year (1324), the see's annual contributions to the patriarchate were fixed at 24

hyperpyra. Archbishop Gabriel is attested as a signatory of the tomos of 1351, endorsing the views of Gregory Palamas and ending the Hesychast controversy. In 1355, the see was briefly united with the Metropolis of Bizye, under Neophytus.[1]

Following the conquest of Heraclea Pontica by the Ottoman Turks in 1360, in January 1365 the Archbishopric of Derkoi was assigned to the Metropolitan of Heraclea to support him through its proceeds. This lasted until ca. March 1371, when the archbishop is again attested as a separate entity. By September 1379, Derkoi was itself raised to a metropolitan see, with the first metropolitan being Paul, who remained in office at least until May 1384. From February 1389 to October 1400, the see was under Metropolitan Joseph.[1] An anonymous incumbent is attested in 1403, but after that the see probably remained vacant due to the Ottoman devastation of the area until about August 1409, when a new incumbent (Basil) is attested. The last metropolitan before the Fall of Constantinople was Acacius, mentioned in late 1452, shortly before the town itself was captured by the Ottomans.[1]

Under Ottoman rule it was a little village south-west of

Therapia on the Bosporus.[citation needed
]

In October 1746, it was raised to the eighth rank of the Greek hierarchy (Mansi, Col. concil., XXXVIII, 527). The diocese included 41 villages in the vicinity of

Minor Conventuals
.

In 1821, during the

massacre that broke out in Constantinople, as a retaliation of the Greek War of Independence, the metropolitan bishop of Derkoi, Gregory, was among the Greek Orthodox upper clergy that was executed by the Ottoman authorities.[3]

During the anti-Greek Istanbul pogrom, in September 1955, six churches under the jurisdiction of the metropolis of Derkoi were destroyed, while the remaining two church buildings were saved. Moreover, the metropolitan mansion was burnt to the ground by the fanatical mob. Latter, the site that once hosted the metropolitan mansion was appropriated by the Turkish authorities and, in 1958, a hotel was built.[4]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-3-7001-3945-4
    .
  2. ^ David Potter (2015), Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint, Oxford University Press, p. 176.
  3. ISBN 9780521811132
    .
  4. doi:10.12681/eadd/26210
    . Retrieved 1 April 2014.

Sources

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Delcus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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