The Metropolis of Kastoria (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Καστοριάς) is one of the metropolises of the New Lands in Greece that are within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but de facto are administered for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople.
The city of Kastoria (Latin Castoria) in northern Greece (West Macedonia) is or historically has been an episcopal see of various Christian churches, and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
At first a suffragan of Thebes, the bishopric was, at least by the reign of Basil II in the early 11th century, the first suffragan see of Achrida (now Ohrid, Bulgaria). Lequien mentions only three bishops, all of the period after the East–West Schism: Joasaph in 1564, Hierotheus, who went to Rome about 1650, and Dionysius Mantoucas; but that list can easily be extended.
In the early 20th century the town was the seat of a Bulgarian Orthodox bishopric with 2,224 families, 32 priests, and 22 churches.
Today, for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Church of Greece the see is the Metropolis of Kastoria and Exarchate for Upper Macedonia, in the so-called "New Lands" of Greece.
Seraphim (Papakostas) 1996–presentGregorios III (Papoutsopoulos) 1985-1996Gregorios II (Maistros) 1974-1985Dorotheos (Giannaropoulos) 1958-1973Nikiphoros II (Papasideris) 1936-1958Ioakeim (Leptidis) 1911-1931Ioakeim (Vaxevanidis) 1908-1911Germanos (Karavangelis) 1900-1908Athanasios (Kapouralis) 1899-1900Philaretos (Vafeidis) 1889-1899Gregorios (Drakopoulos) 1888-1889Kyrillos (Dimitriadis) 1882-1888Constantine (Isaakidis) 1880-1882Hilarion 1874-1879Nicephorus I 1841-1874Athanasions (Mitilinaios) 1836-1841Dormition of the Virgin Mary - Panagia MavriotissaAgion Anargyroi MelissotoposAgia Paraskevi VasileiadouAgios Georgios EptahoriouMonastery of the Nativity of the Virgin of KleisouraSaint Nicholas TsirilovouPanagias FaneromenisMonastery of St. George MelanthiouSome ten Latin bishops of Castoria are known from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
Castoria is listed by the Catholic Church as a titular bishopric since the 15th century.
It is vacant for decades, having had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :
Silvestro de Benedetti, Vallombrosian Benedictines (O.S.B. Vall.) (1432.01.23 – ?)Francis Sexello, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1507.01.07 – ?)Juan López (1520.09.22 – ?)François Daussayo, Augustinian Order (O.E.S.A.) (1531.03.18 – ?)Gedeon van der Gracht (1536.01.10 – ?)Charles Pinello, O.E.S.A. (1546.04.16 – ?)Esteban de Esmir (1639.04.03 – 1641.01.05)Johannes van Neercassel, Oratorians (C.O.) (1662.06.23 – 1686.06.06)Gioachino Maria de’ Oldo (1725.03.03 – 1726.12.09)Bishop-elect Paolino Sandulli, O.S.B. (1727.03.17 – ?)John Mary of St. Thomas Albertini, Discalced Carmelites (O.C.D.) (1780.12.23 – 1783?)Charles Lamothe, Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1793.02.05 – 1816.05.22)Jean-Jacques Guérard, M.E.P. (1816.05.23 – 1823.06.18)Francisco Ferreira de Azevedo (1820.05.29 – 1844.07.25)Jean-François Ollivier, M.E.P. (1824.04.06 – 1827.05.27)Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havard, M.E.P. (1828.03.21 – 1838.07.05)John Fennelly (1841.04.30 – 1868.01.23)Johann Jakob Kraft (1868.09.24 – 1884.06.09)Francesco Gašparić (1884.11.13 – 1897)Gaspar Felicjan Cyrtowt (1897.07.21 – 1910.04.07)Marie-Augustine Chapuis, M.E.P. (1911.03.06 – 1913.05.21)Ferenc Gossman (1913.07.01 – 1931.10.11)Joaquín Alcaide y Bueso, Capuchin Franciscans (O.F.M. Cap.) (1931.12.15 – 1943.02.21)Stanislas Courbe (1943.06.22 – 1971.04.22)