The Holy '''Metropolis of Mytiline, Eressos and Plomariou''' <ref>Mytiline can also be spelled ''Mytilene'', ''Mitiline'' or ''Mitilene''</ref> (Gr. ''Μυτιλήνης, Ερεσσού και Πλωμαρίου'') is part of the [[Church of Greece]] . The Metropolis of Mytiline, Eressos and Plomariou covers the area of the island of Lesbos in the northeastern Aegean Sea.
==Metropolitan==
== History ==
The Metropolis of Mytiline has [[jurisdiction]] over an area of islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea. The island of Mutiline Lesbos is separated from the Turkish mainland by a narrow channel of the Mediterranean. Mytiline The town of Mutiline on Lesbos is most famous for an original [[icon]] painted by St. [[Apostle Luke|Luke the Evangelist]] and it is enshrined in the village and the [[Church of Agiassos|Church of ''Agiassos'']]. Mytiline is also famous for housing the relics of St. [[Theodore of Byzantium]] and more recently the Ss. [[Raphael, Nicholas and Irene]]. It also has taken on a greater significance for housing the [[Archangel Michael of Mantamados|Mantamados]] icon, one of only two "statue" icons in Orthodoxy and extremally wonder-working for the army, military and air-force.
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