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18-528: The town is situated on the Gulf of Kyparissia , a bay of the Ionian Sea , one of the main breeding grounds of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle . Kyparissia is 38 km north of Pylos , 46 km northwest of Kalamata and 51 km southeast of Pyrgos . The Greek National Road 9 (Pyrgos - Methoni ) passes through the town. Kyparissia is the terminus of a now disused railway line from Kalo Nero , on

36-466: A metropolitan see . It had four suffragans; then five about 940; after 1453 it had only two, which successively disappeared. A celebrated stylite lived there in the tenth century, to whom St. Luke the Younger went to be trained. From 1180 until 1833, the see was officially termed " Metropolis of Old Patras " (Μητρόπολις Παλαιών Πατρών), to distinguish it from "New Patras", modern Ypati . Among

54-510: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Peloponnese location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Metropolis of Patras The Metropolis of Patras ( Greek : Ιερά Μητρόπολις Πατρών ) is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece in the city of Patras in Achaea , Greece . The see traces its origins to its patron saint, Saint Andrew , in

72-652: Is the city of Pyrgos , with the town of Zacharo near the center and the town of Kyparissia lying toward the southern end. Flowing into the gulf are the Alpheios and Neda rivers. Its southern part is also one of the main breeding grounds of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle . During the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century, this body was known as the Gulf of Arcadia . 37°30′N 21°25′E  /  37.500°N 21.417°E  / 37.500; 21.417 This Western Greece location article

90-817: The Catholic Church as a titular see . In the Middle Ages it was called Arkadía , a name which was transferred from the interior of the peninsula to this place upon the coast. Under the Principality of Achaea , Kyparissia/Arkadia was the seat of the Barony of Arcadia , which was the last Frankish territory (except for the Venetian possessions) to fall to the Despotate of the Morea , in 1432. In 1460 Kyparissia came under Ottoman control, and remained so, with

108-748: The 1st century. Historically, it has been one of the two pre-eminent sees of the Peloponnese along with the See of Corinth . The see has been part of the Greek Orthodox Church (the Patriarchate of Constantinople until 1833, the Church of Greece since then), except for the period where the city was part of the Principality of Achaea and a Latin see was installed. The see of Patras was founded, according to tradition, by Saint Andrew , who

126-614: The Venetians they continued to depend on Patras. The ecclesiastical territory included the barony of Patras , subject to the Aleman family and a vassal to the principality of Achaea . In 1276, the archbishops acquired control over the barony of Patras, which henceforth became practically independent from the rest of the Principality. The Latin archbishops held the barony 1408, when they sold it to Venice . In 1429 it again fell into

144-414: The castle on the slope of the hill, near the church of Saint George, are some fragments of columns. On the south side of the town, close to the sea-shore, a fine stream rushes out of the rock and flows into the sea; and a little above is a basin with a spring of water, near which are some stones belonging to an ancient structure. This is the ancient fountain sacred to Dionysus , which Pausanias perceived near

162-551: The entrance of the city, on the road from Pylus . Ciparissia once was a (late Byzantine?) bishopric, apparently a suffragan of the Metropolis of Patras , in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , but it was suppressed without a single historically documented incumbent. It was nominally restored in 1933 as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church . It is vacant since decades, having had

180-464: The exception of thirty years of Venetian rule, until the Greek War of Independence which began in 1821. Kyparissia continued to bear the name Arkadia till its destruction by Ibrahim Pasha in 1825, during the Greek War of Independence and when rebuilt it resumed its ancient name Cyparissia, by which it is now called. Some remains of ancient walls may be traced around the modern castle; and below

198-400: The following incumbents of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank: Gulf of Kyparissia The Gulf of Kyparissia ( Greek : Κυπαρισσιακός Κόλπος , Kyparissiakos Kolpos ) is a long, curving indentation along the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece . It lies between Cape Katakolo at the north end and Cape Konello (Akra Kounellos) to the south. Near the northern extreme

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216-539: The line from Pyrgos to Kalamata. The town has a port, which is mainly used for cargo purposes. On a hill east of the town centre lies a fortress built during the Frankish period . The municipal unit Kyparissia is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): The ancient Greek town Cyparissia ( Ancient Greek : Κυπαρισσία ) was already mentioned by Homer in his Iliad . Ancient writers took note of Cyparissia's beautiful situation upon

234-504: The most prominent metropolitans of this period were the future Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople Timothy II and Gabriel IV , as well as Germanos III , who played an important role in the Greek War of Independence . In 1205, William of Champlitte took possession of the city of Patras and installed canons; they in turn elected Antelm of Cluny as archbishop. It had five suffragans, Andravida , Amyclæ , Modon , Coron , and Cephalonia-Zante ; even when Modon and Coron belonged to

252-682: The power of the Greeks of the Despotate of the Morea , who restored the Orthodox see. Patras was taken by the Ottoman Turks in 1460. The list of its Latin archbishops has been compiled by Le Quien , Heinrich Gelzer , Jules Pargoire . When Patras ceased to have residential Latin bishops, Latin titular bishops continued to be appointed. This practice ceased after the Second Vatican Council and no further appointments to

270-528: The sides of one of the offshoots of the range of mountains, which run along this part of the Messenian coast. Upon the narrow summit of the rocks later occupied by a castle built in the Middle Ages, stood the ancient acropolis. There is no harbour upon the Messenian coast north of Pylos; but Leake remarks that the roadstead at Cyparissia seems to be the best on this part of the coast; and in ancient times

288-470: The town a temple of Apollo , and one of Athena Cyparissia . The town continued to coin money down to the time of Severus . Stephanus calls Cyparissia a city of Triphylia , and Strabo also distinguishes between the Triphylian and Messenian Cyparissia, but on what authority we do not know. At a relatively late stage Cyparissia was a bishopric that today, no longer being residential, is listed by

306-425: The town probably possessed an artificial harbour, since traces of a mole may still be seen upon the sea-shore. This was probably constructed on the restoration of Messene by Epaminondas ; for it was necessary to provide the capital of the new state with a port, and no spot was so suitable for this object as Cyparissia. Hence we find Messene and the harbour Cyparissia mentioned together by Scylax Pausanias found in

324-561: Was crucified there. His relics are still kept in the metropolitan cathedral of Saint Andrew of Patras . Until 733, Patras was subordinated to the See of Corinth , and under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Rome . In that year, Emperor Leo III the Isaurian transferred all the sees of the Illyricum to the Patriarchate of Constantinople . Patras was later raised to an archbishopric , which it remained until 806, when it became

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