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4 unusual facts about Metropolis of Patras


Metropolis of Patras

It had five suffragans, Andravida, Amyclæ, Modone, Corone, and Cephalonia-Zante; even when Modone and Corone belonged to the Venetians they continued to depend on Patras.

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From 1180 until 1833, the see was officially termed "Metropolis of Old Patras" (Μητρόπολις Παλαιών Πατρών), to distinguish it from "New Patras", modern Ypati.

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In 1205 William of Champlitte took possession of the city of Patras and installed canons; they in turn elected Antelm, a monk of Cluny, as archbishop.

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In the nineteenth century the pope confided the administration of the Peloponnese to the Bishop of Zakynthos, in 1834 to the Bishop of Syros.



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