Germanos Karavangelis

Germanos Karavangelis

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Born June 16, 1866
Stipsi, Greece
Died February 11, 1935
Vienna, Austria

Germanos Karavangelis (Greek: Γερμανός Καραβαγγέλης, also transliterated as Yermanos and Karavaggelis or Karavagelis, 1866–1935) was born in Stipsi, Lesbos.

He was a metropolitan bishop of Kastoria, in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, from 1900 until 1907, appointed in the name of the Greek state by the ambassador of Greece Nikolaos Mavrokordatos[1] and was one of the main coordinators of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia that had an aim to defend the Greek and Greek Orthodox clerical interests against the Turks and the Bulgarians in then Ottoman Turkish-ruled Macedonia.

He organized armed groups composed mainly of Greek army officers, volunteers brought from Crete, Peloponnese and other parts of Greek populated areas,[1] as well as recruited local Macedonian Greeks[1] such as the chieftain Vangelis Strebreniotis from the village of Srebreni (now Asprogeia), and Konstantinos Kottas, a former member of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) from the village of Rulya (later renamed Kottas by the Greek authorities in his honour).

Karavangelis succeeded to strengthen Greek aspirations in Macedonia and thus helped the later incorporation of the major part of Macedonia by Greece in the Balkan Wars, for which he is praised as a national hero of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia ("makedonomachos"). He is the author of the book of memoirs "The Macedonian Struggle" (Greek: Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών).

See also

Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Unknown		 Bishop of Pera
1896 – 1900[2] 		Succeeded by
Unknown
Preceded by
Athanasios (Kapouralis)
1899-1900		 Metropolitan of Kastoria
1900 – 1908 		Succeeded by
Ioakeim (Vaxevanidis)
1908-1911
Preceded by
Anthimios (Alexoudis)[3]
27 July 1887 – 5 February 1908[4]		 Metropolitan of Amaseia
5 February 1908 – 27 October 1922[4] 		Succeeded by
Spyridon (Vlachos)
27 October 1922 – 15 April 1924[4]
Preceded by
Spyridon (Vlachos)[4]
1916 – 1922		 Metropolitan of Ioannina
1922 – 1924 		Succeeded by
Spyridon (Vlachos)[4]
1924 – 1949
Preceded by
–		 Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe
(Metropolis of Austria)[note 1]
and
Titular Metropolitan of Amaseia[note 2]
12 August 1924 – 10 February 1935[4] 		Succeeded by
Unknown

Notes

  1. ↑ Since 1924 all of the Greek parishes in the territories of Austria, Hungary and Italy came under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. However it was only in 1963 that the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Austria was formally organized.
  2. ↑ "Metropolitan Germanus was condemned to death in absentia by the Turkish authorities on June 7, 1921 and subsequently could not return to Turkey. He remained in Vienna as Exarch of Central Europe of the Ecumenical Patriarchate during the period 1924–1935."[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 (Greek) Γερμανού Καραβαγγέλη. "Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών (Απομνημονεύματα), Εταιρία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Ίδρυμα Μελετών Χερσονήσου του Αίμου".Θεσσαλονίκη. 1959.
  2. ↑ (Greek) Τάσος Αθ. Γριτσόπουλος. "Γερμανός. Ὁ Καραβαγγέλης." Θρησκευτική και Ηθική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια (ΘΗΕ). Τόμος 4 (Βυζάντιον-Διοκλής). Αθηναι – Αθαν. Μαρτινος, 1964. σελ. 400–402.
  3. ↑ (Greek) Αλεξούδης, Άνθιμος. Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - Dictionary of Greek. 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Demetrius Kiminas. The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates With Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Volume 1 of Orthodox Christianity. Wildside Press LLC, 2009. p.97. ISBN 9781434458766

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