Metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos
TheMetropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos(Greek:Ιερά Μητρόπολις Λαρίσης και Τυρνάβου) is aGreek Orthodoxmetropolitan seeinThessaly,Greece.[1]
History[edit]
Christianity penetrated early toLarissa,though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at theCouncil of Nicaea.[2]Saint Achillius of Larissa,of the 4th century, is celebrated for numerousmiracles.
Michel Le Quiencites twenty-nine bishops from the 4th to the 18th centuries.[3]
In theEcumenical Council of Ephesusin 431, the Bishop of Larissa is already mentioned asmetropolitan bishopof Thessaly, and some of hissuffraganswho participated in the council were thebishops of Pharsalus,Lamia,Thessalian Thebes,Echinos,Hypate (Ypati), Kaisareia, andDemetrias.[4]Some time between 730 and 751, the Church in Thessaly, along with the rest of theIllyricum,were transferred from the jurisdiction of thePopeinRometo that of thePatriarch of Constantinople.[5]Bishop Vigilantius attended theCouncil of Chalcedon.[6]
In the middle Byzantine period, theNotitiae Episcopatuumshow Larissa with ten suffragan sees; these were in order Demetrias, Pharsalus,Thaumakos,Zetouni (Lamia),Ezeros,Loidoriki,Trikke,Echinus,Kolydros,andStagoi.[7][8]Before the turn of the 10th century, Larissa also controlledNeopatrasand theSpercheiosvalley, but sometime before 900 it was raised to a separate metropolis, while Pharsalus was likewise raised before 900 to the rank of an autonomous archbishopric.[8]In ca. 1020, Stagoi was ceded for a time to theArchbishopric of Ohrid.[9]
Subsequently, the number of suffragans increased and about the year 1175 under the EmperorManuel I Comnenus,it reached twenty-eight.[10]
Following theFourth Crusadeand Thessaly's incorporation into theKingdom of Thessalonica,aRoman Catholic archbishopwas installed in the place of the previousGreek Orthodoxmetropolitan.[11]The city was soon recovered by the GreekDespotate of Epirus,however, possibly as early as 1212, and the Greek Orthodox metropolitan restored.[12]At the close of the 15th century, under the Turkish domination, there were only ten suffragan sees,[13]which gradually grew less and finally disappeared.
In 1881, Thessalywas cededto Greece. In 1900, the see ofFarsalaandPlatamonwas united with Larissa, which became the Metropolis of Larissa and Platamon. Since the 1970s, the see has borne its current title.
Known bishops[edit]
- St.Achillius of Larissa,first archbishop andpatron saintofLarisac. 4th century[14]
- Julian of Larissa, attended theCouncil of Ephesus.
- Jeremias II?–733
- Thomas, Metropolitan of Larissa 1264[15]
- Nikandros, Metropolitan of Larissa 1278–83[16]
- Kyprianos, Metropolitan of Larissa 1318–?[17]
- Antony,Metropolitan of Larissa 1340–62[18]
- Neilos, Metropolitan of Larissa 1371–88[19]
- Joasaph, Metropolitan of Larissa 1392/3[20]
- St.Bessarion II,Bishop of Larissa 1526/7–40
- Neophytus II,Bishop of Larissa 1550–68
- PatriarchJeremias II of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa ca. 1568–72
- PatriarchMetrophanes III of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa ca. 1572
- Dionysius the Philosopher,Bishop of Larissa 1592–1611[21]
- PatriarchPaisius I of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa?–1652
- PatriarchDionysius III of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa 1652–62
- PatriarchDionysius IV of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa 1662–71
- PatriarchJames of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa?–1679
- Iakovos II 1734–1749
- PatriarchMeletius II of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa 1750–68
- Polykarpos Bithikoukis,Metropolitan of Larissa 1811–18
- Polykarpos Bithikoukis,Metropolitan of Larissa 1820–21
- St. Dionysios VII Kalliarchis, 1821
- PatriarchAnthimus IV of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa 1835–37
- PatriarchJoachim IV of Constantinople,Bishop of Larissa 1870–75
- ArchbishopDorotheus of Athens,Bishop of Larissa and Tyrnavos 1935–56
- Demetrios Bekiaris1989–91
- Ignatios Lappas1994–June 26, 2018 (died in office)[22][23]
- Hieronymus Nikolopoulossince 2018
References[edit]
- ^Holy Metropolis of Larisa and Tyrnavos Website.
- ^"Catholic Encyclopedia".Catholic Encyclopedia.Retrieved13 May2015.
- ^Le Quien, Michel(1740). "Ecclesia Larissæ".Oriens Christianus, in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus: quo exhibentur ecclesiæ, patriarchæ, cæterique præsules totius Orientis. Tomus secundus, in quo Illyricum Orientale ad Patriarchatum Constantinopolitanum pertinens, Patriarchatus Alexandrinus & Antiochenus, magnæque Chaldæorum & Jacobitarum Diœceses exponuntur(in Latin). Paris: Ex Typographia Regia. cols. 103–112.OCLC955922747.
- ^Koder & Hild 1976,p. 81.
- ^Koder & Hild 1976,p. 58.
- ^Richard Price, Michael Gaddis, The Acts of theCouncil of Chalcedon,Volume 1(Liverpool University Press, 2005) p260.&281.
- ^Heinrich Gelzer,"Ungedruckte...Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum", Munich, 1900, 557.
- ^abKoder & Hild 1976,p. 82.
- ^Koder & Hild 1976,p. 83.
- ^Parthey,Hieroclis Synecdemus,Berlin, 1866, 120.
- ^Nicol 2010,p. 36.
- ^Nicol 2010,p. 41.
- ^Gelzer, op. cit., 635.
- ^Heinrich Gelzer,Patrum Nicaenorum nominaLatine, Graece, Coptice, Syriace, Arabice, Armeniace: adiecta est tabula geographica(In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1995) p242.
- ^PLP,7786. Θωμᾶς.
- ^PLP,20249. Νίκανδρος.
- ^PLP,13926. Κυπριανός.
- ^PLP,1098. Ἀντώνιος.
- ^PLP,20043. Νεῖλος.
- ^PLP,8915. Ἰωάσαφ.
- ^The Holy Metropolis of Larissa and Tirnavos The Holy Metropolis of Larissa and Tirnavos.
- ^Holy Metropolis of Larisa and Tyrnavos Website.
- ^"Εκοιμήθη ο μητροπολίτης Λαρίσης και Τυρνάβου, Ιγνάτιος".Kathimerini.2018-06-26.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-06-27.Retrieved2018-07-14.
Sources[edit]
- Koder, Johannes; Hild, Friedrich (1976).Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 1: Hellas und Thessalia(in German). Vienna:Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.ISBN978-3-7001-0182-6.
- Nicol, Donald MacGillivray(2010).The Despotate of Epiros 1267–1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages.Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0-521-13089-9.
- Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996).Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit(in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.ISBN3-7001-3003-1.
External links[edit]
- Official website(in Greek)