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    The Metropolis of Patras (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών) is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece in the city of Patras in Achaea, Greece. The see...
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    related to Cathedral Agios Andreas. Official municipal website The astonishing missionary journeys of the apostle Andrew Holy Metropolis of Patras Website...
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    Patras (Greek: Πάτρα, romanized: Pátra pronounced [ˈpatra] ; Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Πάτραι; Latin: Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and...
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    Demenopoulos (2008–) Metropolis of Patras: Chrysostomos (Christos) Sklifas (2005–) Metropolis of Peristeri: Gregorios Papathomas (2021–) Metropolis of Phocis: Theoktistos...
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  • over its western half. It also marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the Metropolis of Patras in the peninsula's ecclesiastical affairs. The Byzantine...
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    Venetian rule of Patras in the fifteen century it was converted into a Catholic church and re-dedicated to Saint Mark. Much later, after Patras fell to the...
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  • ordained a priest of the Metropolis of Patras. In 1912, he served as a military priest in the Balkan Wars. In 1914 declared Doctor of Theology at the Theological...
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    entrance of the city, on the road from Pylus. Ciparissia once was a (late Byzantine?) bishopric, apparently a suffragan of the Metropolis of Patras, in the...
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  • established after the reconquest of the Peloponnese from the Slavs, and was a suffragan of the Metropolis of Patras. The see remains attested in the Notitiae...
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    ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ ΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΛΗΤΟΥ. Ἱερά Μητρόπολις Πατρῶν (Holy Metropolis of Patras). Retrieved: 21 July 2016. St. Andrew Skull: Relic Returned to Greece...
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  • suffragan. This lasted until the middle of the century, when the Metropolis of Patras was again separated (and installed at the Mega Spilaion Monastery)...
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  • period of Venetian rule in 1688–1715, while the Orthodox Metropolis of Patras remained the centre of the local Orthodox Church. Pétridès, Sophron (1913)....
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  • The Metropolis of Corinth, Sicyon, Zemenon, Tarsos and Polyphengos (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Κορίνθου, Σικυώνος, Ζεμενού, Ταρσού και Πολυφέγγους) is a metropolitan...
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    The Little Metropolis (Greek: Μικρή Μητρόπολη, romanized: Mikrí Mitrópoli), formally the Church of St. Eleftherios (Greek: Άγιος Ελευθέριος, romanized: Áyios...
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    The Patras Castle (Greek: Κάστρο Πατρών) was built around the mid-6th century AD above the ruins of the ancient acropolis of the city of Patras, on a...
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    Ernst Ziller (category Academic staff of the National Technical University of Athens)
    designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras, and other Greek cities. Ziller was born in the rural community of Serkowitz in the district of Radebeul...
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    Antiquity in favour of either remote or offshore locations like Monemvasia, while the inhabitants of several cities such as Patras are claimed by the Chronicle...
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    the fall of the Acrocorinth, the two Palaiologoi brothers capitulated. Acrocorinth, Thomas' capital, Patras, and much of the northern part of the peninsula...
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    The Metropolis of Argolis (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Αργολίδος, "Holy Metropolis of Argolis") is a diocese of the Church of Greece, with its seat at Nafplio...
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  • the Bishop of Aelia should be honoured, let him, saving its due dignity to the Metropolis, have the next place of honour." The metropolis in question...
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    Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, Patriarch Daniel of Romania and Metropolitan Chrysostomos (gr) of Patras from the Greek Orthodox...
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    Panagia Ekatontapiliani (category Helena, mother of Constantine I)
    island of Paros in Greece. The church complex contains a main chapel surrounded by two more chapels and a baptistery with a cruciform font. The origin of the...
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    single Song of Joy featuring Liz Mitchell. A major DVD set was also released. In February 2017, they performed at the closing ceremony of Patras Carnival...
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    unlike other Roman foundations in Greece contemporary with Nicopolis such as Patras, Philippi and, also in Epirus, Buthrotum and Epidamnus, the city was not...
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  • The sack of Thessalonica in 1185 by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century...
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    Πάτρας (English: The 1st LGBTQI Pride of Patras)". Antivirus Magazine. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2017. "Patras Pride on Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved...
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    Reconquest of Constantinople was the recapture of the city of Constantinople in 1261 CE by the forces led by Alexios Strategopoulos of the Empire of Nicaea...
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    Byzantine Crete (category Themes of the Byzantine Empire)
    of Crete came under the rule of the Byzantine Empire in two periods: the first extends from the late antique period (3rd century) to the conquest of the...
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    Kassiopi Castle (category History of Corfu)
    Κασσιώπης) is a castle on the northeastern coast of Corfu overseeing the fishing village of Kassiopi. It was one of three Byzantine-period castles that defended...
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    Old Metropolis (Greek: Παλαιά Μητρόπολη) is an early 11th-century Byzantine basilica, dedicated to Saint Paul, that during the Ottoman period of the city...
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