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Germanos (Karavaggelis) of Amaseia

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==Life==
Stylianos Karavangelis (Greek: Στυλιανός Καραβαγγέλης) was born on [[June 16]], 1866 in Stipsi on the Island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. Little is known In 1868, he moved with his family to Adramiti on the west coast of his early lifeAsia Minor. He had a brother and six sisters. His grandfather had taken part in the Greek revolution of 1821. Stylianos studied at the [[Theological School of Halki]] at which , graduating in 1888. During this time he later taught religious history. He held a position as also was [[ordination|ordained]] a suffragan [[bishopdeacon]] in Pera in Constantinople. In 1900, he was appointed the Metropolitan of Kastoria in with the name of the Greek state by the ambassador of Greece Nikolaos MavrokordatosGermanos. The metropolis was then part of the mixed ethnic area of Macedonia in the Ottoman Empire He continued his education, studying theology and philosophy at Leipzig and is now located Bonn. He returned to Constantinople in 1891 to teach religious history at the periphery of West Macedonia, Greeceschool at Halki.
In 1895, Germanos was elected [[bishop]] of Pera in Constantinople. In 1900, he was appointed the Metropolitan of Kastoria in the name of the Greek state by the ambassador of Greece Nikolaos Mavrokordatos. The metropolis was then part of the mixed ethnic area of Macedonia in the Ottoman Empire and is now located in the periphery of West Macedonia, Greece. In Kastoria, he became involved in the Macedonian revolutionary movement. His activities supporting Greek interests during the Macedonian Struggle in Macedonia in the first decade of the twentieth century resulted in the demand, in 1907, by the Ottoman Turks for his removal from Macedoniaby the Ecumenical Patriarchate.  After his removal in 1908, Metr. Germanos was elected to the see of Amaseia in Pontuswhere during the following years the Turkish government took aggressive action to remove the Pontian Greeks. In the election of a new [[patriarch]] of Constantinople in 1921, Metr. Germanos' name was included in among the final three-member candidate candidates in the list with Metropolitans Nikolaos of Caesarea and [[Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople|Meletius of Athens]][http://constantinople.ehw.gr/Forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=11472]. In 1923 after the exchange of populations, he was elected the Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Ioannina by the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]], followed in 1924, with an appointed his appointment by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as the Exarch for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Hungary with his see in Vienna, Austria.
Metr. Germanos reposed on [[February 11]], 1935 in Vienna, Austria.
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*[http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/13/en/foreign_policy/people/index.html Metropolitan of Kastoria Germanos Karavangelis]
*[http://www.imkastorias.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=12&Itemid=31 Germanus Karavangelis Metropolitan of Kastoria (1900-1908)] In Greek
*[http://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Германос_Каравангелис Germanos Karavangelis] In Macedonian
*[[Wikipedia: Germanos_Karavaggelis]]
*[http://pravoslavnasrbkinja.blogspot.com/2012/05/pontian-genocide-may-19.html Pontian Genocide]
[[Category: Bishops of Kastoria]]
[[Category: Bishops of Amaseia]]
[[Category: Bishops of Austria]]
[[Category: 19th-20th-century bishops]]
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