Panagia Episkopi

Thira Municipality, Greece

The Panagia Episkopi is a middle-Byzantine Greek Orthodox former cathedral, now church, on the island of Santorini (Thira), in the Cyclades region of Greece. It is also called Panagia tis Episkopis or Church of Episkopi Thiras. According to an old, now almost completely destroyed inscription, the building of the church was commissioned by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos at the end of the 11th century, and took the place of a previous three-aisled early Byzantine-era basilica. The church was dedicated to the Panagia ("All-holy"), a Greek Orthodox appellation for the Virgin Mary. The second part of the name (Episkopi) means "episcopal". The Panagia Episkopi was the seat of the Orthodox diocese of Santorini until 1207 and again from 1537 to 1827.

Google Maps ↗ Wikipedia ↗

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other churches in Greece

Agia Triada Monastery, Sparmos Community of Flambourou, Greece Agios Ioannis o Prodromos Church, Spodiana Greece Agios Minas Cathedral Heraklion Municipality, Greece Assumption Cathedral, Chania Chania Municipality, Greece Baptistery of St. John the Baptist (Thessaloniki) Thessaloniki Municipality, Greece Basilica of St. Achillios Larissa Municipality, Greece Cathedral Basilica of St. Dionysius the Areopagite Athens Municipality, Greece Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Patras Municipality of Patras, Greece