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==Metropolitan==
The current [[metropolitan]] is His Eminence Metropolitan [[Iakovos III of Mytiline]] (Gr. ''ΙΑΚΩΒΟΣ Γ' Μυτιλήνης, Ερεσσού και Πλωμαρίου'')
== History ==
The Metropolis of Mytiline governs the area of. The island of Mutiline is separated from the Turkish mainland by a narrow channel of the Mediterranean. Mytiline is most famous for an original [[icon]] painted by St. [[Luke the Evangelist]] and it is enshrined in the village and the [[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]].
== See also ==
===New Martyrs===
* New-martyr [[Theodoros Theodore of Byzantium]] ([[February 17]], 1795)
* Holy New-martyrs Saints '''[[Raphael, Nicholas and Irene]]'''
* New-martyr Anastasios and Demetrios of Asomaton and Agiason ([[August 11]] - between 1816-1819)
