Metropolis of Maroneia and Komotini

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The Metropolis of Maroneia and Komotini, also Maroneia and Komotene, is one of the metropolises of the New Lands in Greece that is under the jurisdiction of the Church of Constantinople but de facto is administered for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople. [1]

The metropolis is located in Thrace in northern Greece.

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Metropolitan

His Eminence Metropolitan Damaskinos (Roumeliotis) of Maroneia and Komotene|Damaskinos (Roumeliotis) was born in 1929 in Ichalia, Messinia. He was consecrated a bishop in 1974.

Former hierarchs

Monasteries in the metropolis

  • Monastery of Panagia Faneromeni For men

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