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His Eminence [[Barnabas (Tyris) of Neapolis]] and Stavroupolis is the [[Metropolitan]] of the [[Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis]] under the administration of the [[Church of Greece]]. The Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis is a metropolis in the New Lands of Greece, under the [[jurisdiction]] of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]]. [http://www.patriarchate.org/patriarchate/jurisdiction/administration/dioceses/new-lands]. Metr. Barnabas has been the ruling hierarch of the metropolis since 2004. 

==Life==
Mark Tyris was born in Diavata near Thessalonica, Greece in 1958. He attended the Tertiary level Ecclesiastical School of Lamia, before studying at and graduating from the Pedagogical Academy and the Theological School of Aristotle University of Thessalonica. 

In 1984, Mark was [[tonsure]]d a [[monk]] with the name Barnabas and was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]]. Later in 1984, he was ordained a [[priest]]. Raised to the dignity of [[archimandrite]], Father Barnabas served as Vicar General and [[Chancellor]] of the Holy Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis. Also, in 1989, he was the head of the Office of the Thessalonica Central Finance Office of the Church of Greece.

On [[October 6]], 2004, Fr. Barnabas was elected to the [[see]] of the Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis and was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] the metropolitan of the metropolis on [[October 10]], 2004  in the Cathedral of Athens. He was [[enthronement|enthroned]] on [[November 7]], 2004 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Neapolis.

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==Sources==
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/dioceses/Neapoleos/Neapoleos.html  Naples and Stavroupoli]  In Greek
*[http://www.ecclesia.gr/English/holysynod/hierarchy.htm  Holy Synod]
*[http://www.imnst.gr/index.php?id=1  Metropolitan]  In Greek

[[Category: Bishops]]
[[Category: Bishops of Neapolis (Greece)]]
[[Category: 21st-century bishops]]