TheMetropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos (Greek:Ιερά Μητρόπολις Λαρίσης και Τυρνάβου) is aGreek Orthodoxmetropolitan see inThessaly,Greece.^[1]

Christianity penetrated early toLarissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at theCouncil of Nicaea.^[2]Saint Achillius of Larissa, of the 4th century, is celebrated for numerousmiracles.

Michel Le Quien cites twenty-nine bishops from the 4th to the 18th centuries.^[3]

In theEcumenical Council of Ephesus in 431, the Bishop of Larissa is already mentioned asmetropolitan bishop of Thessaly, and some of hissuffragans who participated in the council were thebishops of Pharsalus,Lamia,Thessalian Thebes,Echinos, Hypate (Ypati), Kaisareia, andDemetrias.^[4] Some time between 730 and 751, the Church in Thessaly, along with the rest of theIllyricum, were transferred from the jurisdiction of thePope inRome to that of thePatriarch of Constantinople.^[5] Bishop Vigilantius attended theCouncil of Chalcedon.^[6]

In the middle Byzantine period, theNotitiae Episcopatuum show Larissa with ten suffragan sees; these were in order Demetrias, Pharsalus,Thaumakos, Zetouni (Lamia),Ezeros,Loidoriki,Trikke,Echinus,Kolydros, andStagoi.^[7][8] Before the turn of the 10th century, Larissa also controlledNeopatras and theSpercheios valley, but sometime before 900 it was raised to a separate metropolis, while Pharsalus was likewise raised before 900 to the rank of an autonomous archbishopric.^[8] In ca. 1020, Stagoi was ceded for a time to theArchbishopric of Ohrid.^[9]

Subsequently, the number of suffragans increased and about the year 1175 under the EmperorManuel I Comnenus, it reached twenty-eight.^[10]

Following theFourth Crusade and Thessaly's incorporation into theKingdom of Thessalonica, aRoman Catholic archbishop was installed in the place of the previousGreek Orthodox metropolitan.^[11] The city was soon recovered by the GreekDespotate of Epirus, however, possibly as early as 1212, and the Greek Orthodox metropolitan restored.^[12] At the close of the 15th century, under the Turkish domination, there were only ten suffragan sees,^[13] which gradually grew less and finally disappeared.

In 1881, Thessalywas ceded to Greece. In 1900, the see ofFarsala andPlatamon was united with Larissa, which became the Metropolis of Larissa and Platamon. Since the 1970s, the see has borne its current title.

• St.Achillius of Larissa, first archbishop andpatron saint ofLarisa c. 4th century^[14]
• Julian of Larissa, attended theCouncil of Ephesus.
• Jeremias II ?–733
• Thomas, Metropolitan of Larissa 1264^[15]
• Nikandros, Metropolitan of Larissa 1278–83^[16]
• 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
• PatriarchJeremias II of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa ca. 1568–72
• PatriarchMetrophanes III of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa ca. 1572
• Dionysius the Philosopher, Bishop of Larissa 1592–1611^[21]
• PatriarchPaisius I of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa ?–1652
• PatriarchDionysius III of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa 1652–62
• PatriarchDionysius IV of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa 1662–71
• PatriarchJames of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa ?–1679
• Iakovos II 1734–1749
• PatriarchMeletius II of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa 1750–68
• Polykarpos Bithikoukis, Metropolitan of Larissa 1811–18
• Polykarpos Bithikoukis, Metropolitan of Larissa 1820–21
• St. Dionysios VII Kalliarchis, 1821
• PatriarchAnthimus IV of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa 1835–37
• PatriarchJoachim IV of Constantinople, Bishop of Larissa 1870–75
• ArchbishopDorotheus of Athens, Bishop of Larissa and Tyrnavos 1935–56
• Demetrios Bekiaris 1989–91
• Ignatios Lappas 1994–June 26, 2018 (died in office)^[22][23]
• Hieronymus Nikolopoulos since 2018

• Koder, Johannes; Hild, Friedrich (1976).Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 1: Hellas und Thessalia (in German). Vienna:Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.ISBN 978-3-7001-0182-6.
• Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (2010).The Despotate of Epiros 1267–1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-13089-9.
• Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996).Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.

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