Metropolis of Kastoria


The Metropolis of Kastoria is one of the metropolises of the New Lands in Greece that are within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but de facto are administered for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople.
Kastoria is also a Latin Catholic titular see, and in the early 20th century hosted a Bulgarian Orthodox bishopric.

History

At first a suffragan of Thebes, the bishopric was, at least by the reign of Basil II in the early 11th century, the first suffragan see of the Archbishopric of Ohrid. Le Quien mentions only three bishops, all of the period after the East–West Schism: Joasaph in 1564, Hierotheus, who went to Rome about 1650, and Dionysius Mantoucas; but that list can easily be extended.
In the early 20th century the town was the seat of a Bulgarian Orthodox bishopric with 2,224 families, 32 priests, and 22 churches.
Today, for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Church of Greece the see is the Metropolis of Kastoria and Exarchate for Upper Macedonia, in the so-called "New Lands" of Greece.
On October 3, 2019 the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople resolved to glorify seven New Martyrs of Kastoria, at the proposal of Metropolitan Seraphim of Kastoria, including the following:
The "Synaxis of the Saints of Kastoria" is a moveable feast that is held on the Third Sunday of November.

Greek Orthodox Metropolitans

For men

Some ten Latin bishops of Castoria are known from the 13th to the 15th centuries.

Latin titular see

Castoria is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular bishopric since the 15th century.
It is vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank :