Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Oinousses

Holy Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Oinousses
Orthodox
Location
Country	Greece
Headquarters	Chios (town)
Statistics
Area	904 km^2 (349 sq mi)
Parishes	109
Churches	1069
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Rite	Byzantine Rite
Established	325 AD
Cathedral	Saints Menas, Victor and Vincent
Language	Greek
Current leadership
Parent church	Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Church of Greece
Governance	Episcopal
Patriarch	Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Metropolitan	Markos Vasilakis
Vicar General	Archimandrite Nektarios Epitropakis
Website
imchiou.gr/

The Holy Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Oinousses (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Ιερά Μητρόπολις Χίου, Ψαρών και Οινουσσών) is an Orthodox Christian diocese covering the Greek eastern Aegean islands of Chios, Psara, and Oinousses.

As part of the "New Lands," it belongs to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, but the Church of Greece carries out its administration.

Since 2011, the Metropolitan of Chios has been Markos Vasilakis. ^[1]

Charity

The Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Oinousses runs a welfare programme where volunteers organised by the church cook approximately 540 meals daily, 5 days a week. These meals are distributed to local parishes, where it is then given to those in need, 40% of whom are elders. In 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2020, separately, the Metropolis won food supply grants to feed approximately 300 elderly residents for 12 months.^[2]

In April 2020, as president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Chios, Metropolitan Markos of Chios donated €6,000 to a Chios hospital along with an earlier donation of €20,000 towards SARS sampling and nursing infrastructure. This brings the total donated to the hospital to €26,000.^[3]

Bibliography

• Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9781434458766.

References

1. NewsRoom. "The Metropolitan of Chios visited the President of the Republic | Orthodox Times (en)". orthodoxtimes.com/. Retrieved 2022-04-18. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
2. www.timafoundation.org https://www.timafoundation.org/grants/metropolis-of-chios-psara-and-oinousses-food-supplies-2020/. Retrieved 2022-04-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. NewsRoom. "Metropolitan of Chios donates € 6,000 more to Chios Hospital | Orthodox Times (en)". orthodoxtimes.com/. Retrieved 2022-04-18. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

External links

• Diocesan website (in Greek)