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The Latin or Roman Catholic Archbishopric of Larissa is a titular see of the Catholic Church. It was established briefly as a residential episcopal see at Larissa, Thessaly, during the first decades of the Frankokratia period in place of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Larissa. Following the recovery of Larissa by the Greeks, the see became ...
Saint Achillius of Larissa, also known as Achilles, [1] Ailus, [2] Achillas, [1] or Achilius [3] (Greek: Άγιος Αχίλλειος, Ágios Achílleios) (died 330 AD), was a 4th century bishop of Larissa and one of the 318 persons present at the First Council of Nicaea. His feast day is on 15 May.
Larissa is an Orthodox Metropolis of the Church of Greece. It was also briefly a Latin archbishopric in the early 13th century, and remains a Latin Metropolitan (top-ranking) titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, which must not be confused with the Latin episcopal (low-ranking) titular see Larissa in Syria. Today there is a Catholic church ...
The Basilica of St. Achilleios (Greek: Βασιλική του Αγίου Αχιλλείου) is an early Byzantine basilica on the acropolis of Larissa, Greece, dedicated to the city's patron saint, St. Achilleios. The church was discovered and excavated in 1978, during works on the local free-air market. [1]
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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; Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa ca ...
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The vicariate was established in 1926 as Apostolic Vicariate of Thessalonica, by Pope Pius XI in the apostolic brief "In sublimi Principis", [2] 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.