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–present
Gregorios III (Papoutsopoulos) 1985-1996
Gregorios II (Maistros) 1974-1985
Dorotheos (Giannaropoulos) 1958-1973
Nikiphoros II (Papasideris) 1936-1958
Ioakeim (Leptidis) 1911-1931
Ioakeim (Vaxevanidis) 1908-1911
Germanos (Karavangelis) 1900-1908
Athanasios (Kapouralis) 1899-1900
Philaretos (Vafeidis) 1889-1899
Gregorios (Drakopoulos) 1888-1889
Kyrillos (Dimitriadis) 1882-1888
Constantine (Isaakidis) 1880-1882
Hilarion 1874-1879
Nicephorus I 1841-1874
Athanasions (Mitilinaios) 1836-1841
Dormition of the Virgin Mary - Panagia Mavriotissa
Agion Anargyroi Melissotopos
Agia Paraskevi Vasileiadou
Agios Georgios Eptahoriou
Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin of Kleisoura
Saint Nicholas Tsirilovou
Panagias Faneromenis
Monastery of St. George Melanthiou
Some 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)
