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The Panagia Episkopi is a beige-washed cross-in-square domed church with peripheral structures. The floor plan takes the shape of a Greek cross with a length of 14 m and breadth of 11.1 m, and the crossing supports a dome upon a tholobate. The roofs of the church are covered with red tiles or simply plastered.
Completed. 1757. The Three Bells of Fira ( Greek: Τρεις καμπάνες των Φηρών ), officially known as The Catholic Church of the Dormition, is a Greek Catholic church on the island of Santorini. The church is known for its blue dome, three bells and views. [ 1] The building is located in the town of Fira, directly above the ...
Santería. A group of Santería practitioners performing the Cajón de Muertos ceremony in Havana in 2011. Santería ( Spanish pronunciation: [santeˈɾi.a] ), also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century. It arose amid a process of syncretism between ...
Hierapolis (/ ˌ h aɪ ə ˈ r æ p ə l ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἱεράπολις, lit. "Holy City") was a Hellenistic Greek city built on the site of a Phrygian cult center of the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele, [1] [2] in Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist[ 1] ( Greek: Καθεδρικός ναός του Αγίου Ιωάννη του Βαπτιστή) is a parish of the Catholic Church in Fira, on the island of Santorini in Greece. [ 2][ 3] It serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Santorini . The cathedral is located in the city center, in the Catholic ...
Petros Stefanou. Metropolitan Archbishop. Josif Printezis. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santorini ( Latin: Dioecesis Sanctoriensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Santorini in the ecclesiastical province of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos in Greece. [ 1][ 2]
Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316453766. The Pontic Greek genocide refers to the massacre and deportation inflicted against ethnic Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923. The name originated from the Greek population living on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea (in northern Turkey).
Santiago Calatayud, O.S.A. or Giacomo da Calatayud (died 1526) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Santorini (1521–1526). Biography. Santiago Calatayud was ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Augustine. On 20 Feb 1521, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Leo X as Bishop of Santorini.