Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios
Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios Ιερά Μητρόπολις Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Greece |
Archdeaconries | 3
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| Headquarters | Nafpaktos |
| Information | |
| Formation | 4th century |
| Cathedral | Saint Demetrius Metropolitan Cathedral, Nafpaktos |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Hierotheos Vlachos |
| Website | |
| https://www.parembasis.gr/ | |
The Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios (
History
The see of Nafpaktos is attested since the 4th century, and was initially a
Like the rest of
When Nafpaktos became the seat of the new
It is thus that the see appears in the sources from the 9th century on as "Nafpaktos of Nicopolis" (μητρόπολις Ναυπάκτου Νικοπόλεως), counting initially eight suffragans covering all of
In 1025, the metropolitan was at the head of a rebellion of the local populace, which led to the death of the local strategos George. Emperor Constantine VIII (r. 1025–28) brutally suppressed the uprising, and blinded the metropolitan.[2][7]
After the Fourth Crusade, Nafpaktos became part of the Despotate of Epirus.[2][8] Under its metropolitan, John Apokaukos, the see of Nafpaktos gained in importance and headed the local synod for the southern half of the Epirote domains, but was soon overshadowed by the Archbishopric of Ohrid under the energetic Demetrios Chomatenos.[9]
The town came under
References
- ^ Nesbitt & Oikonomides (1994), p. 18
- ^ a b c d Gregory (1991), pp. 1442–1443
- ^ a b Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Veikou (2012), p. 466
- ^ Nesbitt & Oikonomides (1994), pp. 9–10, 18
- ^ Veikou (2012), pp. 47, 265
- ^ a b Veikou (2012), p. 467
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 65
- ^ Fine (1994), p. 115
- ^ "Naupactus (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
Sources
- ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
- Gregory, T. E. (1991). "Naupaktos". In ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Nesbitt, John; ISBN 0-88402-226-9.
- Veikou, Myrto (2012). Byzantine Epirus: A Topography of Transformation. Settlements of the Seventh-Twelfth Centuries in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004221512.