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Holy Synod Of Catholic Bishops Of Greece
The Holy Synod of Catholic Bishops of Greece (, ) is the Episcopal Conference (association of Catholic bishops) in Greece. It is a member of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences and sends a representative to the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE). President * Sevastianos Rossolatos, Archbishop of Athens and Apostolic Administrator for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rhodes. Members * Iosif Printezis, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos and Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chios. * Georgios Altouvas OFM Cap, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia and Apostolic Administrator for the Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki. * Manuel Nin, Titular Bishop of Carcabia and Apostolic Exarch of Greece (Byzantine Rite) * Petros Stefanou, Bishop of Syros and Milos, Santorini, apostolic administrator for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crete See also *Catholic Church i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Corfu, Zakynthos And Cephalonia
The Archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos, and Cefalonia () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church comprising the Ionian islands of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia in western Greece."Archdiocese of Corfù, Zante e Cefalonia" ''Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Corfu–Zakynthos–Kefalonia" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 History * 1310: Established as Diocese of Corfù * June 3, 1919: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Corfu – Zakynthos – C ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footnotes
In publishing, a note is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting citations. In the editorial production of books and documents, typographically, a note is usually several lines of text at the bottom of the page, at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or a house-style typographic usage throughout the text. Notes are usually identified with superscript numbers or a symbol.''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) p. 709. Footnotes are informational notes located at the foot of the thematically relevant page, whilst endnotes are informational notes published at the end of a chapter, the end of a volume, or the conclusion of a multi-volume book. Unlike footnotes, which require manipulating the page design (text-block and page layouts) to accommodate the additional text, endnotes are advantageous to editorial production because the textual inclusion does not alter the design of the publication. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In Greece
The Catholic Church in Greece is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Indigenous Roman Catholic Greeks numbered about 50,000-70,000 in 2022 and were a religious and not an ethnic minority. Most of them are a remnant of Republic of Venice, Venetian and Republic of Genoa, Genoese Latinokratia, rule in southern Greece and many Greek islands (in both the Aegean Sea, Aegean and Ionian Islands under Venetian rule, Ionian seas) from the early 13th until the late 18th century, Greeks who converted to Catholicism or descendants of the thousands of Kingdom of Bavaria, Bavarians that came to Greece in the 1830s as soldiers and civil administrators, accompanying Otto of Greece, King Otto. One very old but still common term to reference to them is Φράγκοι, or "Franks#Legacy, Franks", dating to the times of the Byzantine Empire, when medieval Greeks would use that term to describe all Catholics. Since the early 1990s however, the num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Crete
The Diocese of Crete () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located on the island of Crete in the ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece. History Roman Catholic presence on the island of Crete dates to its conquest by the Republic of Venice in the years after the Fourth Crusade (1204), and its establishment as a Venetian colony in 1212. Immediately after that, the first Latin Rite Archbishop of Crete was appointed, with a succession of holders until the Ottoman conquest of the island in the Cretan War (1645–1669). Thereafter the see remained vacant, until re-established as a simple bishopric on 28 August 1874, initially a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of İzmir, but today a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos. Present day Catholic Churches in Heraklion (Saint John The Baptist), Chania, Rethymnon (St. Antony of Padua) Bishops Venetian period * anonymous (1213 – ?), took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Santorini
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santorini () is a diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Santorini in the ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece."Diocese of Santorini " ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Santorini" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 History * 1204: Established as Diocese of Santorini, also called Diocese of Thera Ordinaries |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Syros And Milos
The Diocese of Syros and Milos () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the cities of Syros and Milos in the ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece. History The diocese was established in 1400 as Diocese of Syros–Milos. Caritas Syros, founded in 1986 is the official arm for pastoral care, charity and social support of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros. It is a member of the national Caritas Hellas. Ordinaries Bishops of Syros # Agostino Gisolfi, OP (23 September 1592 – 1607) # Giovanni Andrea Garga, OP (30 July 1607 – 2 October 1617) # Giovanni Girardi, OFM (7 January 1619 – 1624) # Domenico Marengo, OFM (27 October 1625 – 1645) # Giovanni Mihele de Curtis, O Carm (6 May 1647 – June 1655) # Giuseppe Guarchi (2 August 1655 – 1690) # Antonio Giustiniani (8 February 1694 – 24 January 1701) # Michele Caro (12 February 1703 – 18 September 1707) # Nicolaus de Camillis (7 May 1710 – 1710) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petros Stefanou
Petros Stefanou (, born on 17 August 1963, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece) is a Catholic prelate and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros and Milos from 13 May 2014. Biography Stefanou is a graduate of the University of Athens, in Economics. On 26 June 1994 Stefanou was ordained deacon and on 15 July 1995 Catholic priest. On 13 May 2014 Pope Francis Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until Death and funeral of Pope Francis, his death in 2025. He was the fi ... appointed him Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syros and Milos, Santorini and apostolic administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crete. On 2 July 2014 Stefanou was ordained bishop. References External links * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bstefanou.html * http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2014/05/13/0344/00755.html 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byzantine Rite
The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural, devotional, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian church of Constantinople. The canonical hours are extended and complex, lasting about eight hours (longer during Great Lent) but are abridged outside of large Monastery, monasteries. An iconostasis, a partition covered with icons, separates Sanctuary#Sanctuary as area around the altar, the area around the altar from the nave. The Sign of the cross#Eastern Orthodoxy, sign of the cross, accompanied by bowing, is made very frequently, e.g., more than a hundred times during the Divine Liturgy#Byzantine Rite, divine liturgy, and there is prominent veneration of icons, a general acceptance of the congregants freely moving within the church and interacting with each other, and distinctive traditions of liturgical chanting. Some traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Nin
Manuel Nin i Güell (born 20 August 1956) is a Spanish Catholic prelate who has served as Apostolic Exarch of Greece in the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church since 2016. He is a member of the Benedictines. Life Nin was born on August 20, 1956, in the town of El Vendrell in the Catalan province of Tarragona in Spain. He began his early studies in his hometown and completed them at the Colegio La Salle in Reus. After completing his studies, he entered the Abbey of Montserrat as a candidate on 20 September 1975, where he was received into the abbey's novitiate the following April. He professed temporary religious vows on 26 April 1977 and his solemn vows on 18 October 1980. He then began his studies toward his Baccalaureate in theology at the abbey's Theological School of Montserrat, during which time his concentration was on the classical languages of Latin, Greek and Syriac. After completing those studies, in 1984 Nin was sent to study in Rome, where he pursued a licentiate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Vicariate Of Thessaloniki
The Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or apostolic vicariate of the Catholic Church in northern continental Greece. It is exempt to the Holy See and is not part of any ecclesiastical province, and remains vacant under apostolic administrators since its only proper apostolic vicar, Alessandro Guidati, was promoted Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in 1929. Its cathedra is within the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Thessaloniki. History The vicariate was established in 1926 as Apostolic Vicariate of Thessalonica, by Pope Pius XI in the apostolic brief ''"In sublimi Principis"'', from canonical territory split off from the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Constantinople, comprising the Greek prefectures of Thessaloniki, Kavala, Xanthi, Volos, Larisa and Giannitsa. Since then, the Vicariate covers the entire territory of northern Greece, including regions of Greek Macedonia, Greek Thrace and Thessaly. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OFM Cap
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of Franciscans, Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three "Religious institute#Nomenclature, First Orders" that reformed from the Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the other being the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, Conventuals (OFMConv). Franciscans reformed as Capuchins in 1525 with the purpose of regaining the original Habit (tunic) of St. Francis of Assisi and also for returning to a stricter observance of the rule established by Francis of Assisi in 1209. History Origins The Order arose in 1525 when Matteo da Bascio, an Order of Friars Minor, Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of Marche, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
