Avlonari ( el, Αυλωνάρι) is a village and a community (unit) of the Municipality

Kymi-Aliveri Kymi-Aliveri ( el, Κύμη-Αλιβέρι) is a municipality in the Euboea regional unit, Central Greece, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Aliveri. The municipal unit has an area of 804.983 km2. Municipality The municipality Kymi ...

, in the eastern part of the Aegean island of

Euboea Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...

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. It was the seat of the municipality of Avlon, Ancient Aulon (hence the name; has homonyms), a former bishopric which remains a Latin Catholic

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. In 2011 its population was 637 for the village and 1,354 for the community, which includes the villages Chania, Dafni, Elaia and Lofiskos. Avlonari is situated on a hillside, 13 km northeast of

Aliveri Aliveri ( el, Αλιβέρι) is a town and a community in the island of Evvoia, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Tamyneoi, and the seat of the municipality Kymi-Aliveri. Aliveri is situated in the western part of the island, on the Sout ...

, 15 km south of

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and 47 km east of

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History

Aulon, the ancient name of the town, appears in the ''

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'', commencing with that of

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(886-912), as a

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, a

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of the

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of Athens, in the sway of the

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. No names of its first-millennium bishops are known. After what is termed the

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(1202–04), Euboea was captured by Crusaders, establishing Italian baronies (initially Lombard, later on Venetian control) and Aulon became a diocese of the

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. A Greek, Teodoros, was appointed, but destituted by the Metropolitan Latin Archdiocese of Athens, for refusing to receive his consecration according to the Latin rite; Pope

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restored him after obtaining his liturgical submission (December 1208). yet a papal letter from July 1210 already mentions "bishop-elect", plausibly to replace the troublesome Greek Theodore, whom Innocent III addressed two more letters in 1211. About 1234, the Latin Diocese of Negroponte obtained the union of al Latin sees on Euboea; this remained disputed between Aulon and Negroponte for several years. During the Venetian rule of

(15th century), twelve 50 m tall towers were built northeast and north of Avlonari to protect the village from raiders.

Titular see

No longer a residential bishopric, this Aulon is today listed by the

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as a

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, being distinguished from an Adriatic diocese Aulon by using for the Euboean Aulon the Latin adjective ''Aulonensis'', while the Latin adjective regarding the other Aulon in

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(modern Vlore, in

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) is ''Aulonitanus''.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ), p. 842 The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Catholic

. It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank : * Tomás Juan Carlos Solari (1943.08.23 – 1948.09.20) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(

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) (1943.08.23 – 1948.09.20); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Argentina) (1948.09.20 – death 1954.05.13) * Manuel Tato (1948.11.13 – 1961.07.11) as Auxiliary Bishop of

(Argentina) (1948.11.13 – 1961.07.11); later Bishop of

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(Argentina) (1961.07.11 – death 1980.08.12) * Manuel Augusto Cárdenas (1962.04.07 – death 1998.07.28), first as Auxiliary Bishop of

(1962.04.07 – 1975.04.22), then as Auxiliary Bishop of Argentina of the Eastern Rite (1975.11.11 – 1992.02.11), finally on emeritate.

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GCatholic

Avlonari at the GTP Travel Pages

Video on Avlonari from ERT's travelling program ''Traveling in Greece'' (''Menoume Ellada'')
Populated places in Euboea ; Bibliography * Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, Tomo II, coll. 226-227 * Raymond Janin, lemma 'Aulon', in ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques'', vol. V, 1931, coll. 671-672 {{Kymi-Aliveri div

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