Yannis Spiteris,
O.F.M. Cap. (Greek: Ιωάννης Σπιτέρης; born August 27, 1940,
Corfu,
Greece
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) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia and apostolic administrator of
Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki
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It is exempt to the Holy See and is ...
from 2003 to 2020. In 1968 he was ordained Catholic priest and on March 22, 2003 was appointed archbishop, being ordained Catholic bishop on May 18, 2003.
Life
Bishop Yannis Spiteris was born in
Corfu (city)
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, the capital of the Greek island of
Corfu. He came from a large Christian family and took his graduation in a Capuchin monastery and laid on December 10, 1963 his first monastic vows.
After his theological studies Spiteris received on 24 July 1968 by then Archbishop of Corfu,
Antonios Varthalitis
Antonios Varthalitis, AA ( el, Αντώνιος Βαρθαλίτης; 1 January 1924 in – 27 October 2007) was from 1962 to 2003 Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia.
Life
Antonios V ...
his ordination. He completed a doctoral program in theology at the
University of Fribourg
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The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisi ...
and later received a teaching position at the
Pontifical Lateran University
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. Spiteris served as vicar and pastor in several churches on the island of Corfu, in Athens and in Crete.
On 22 March 2003, he was appointed Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cephalonia, the consecration took place on May 18, 2003 by Antonio Varthalitis, his predecessor in the Archdiocese of Corfu, and
Nikolaos Foskolos
Nikolaos Foskolos ( el, Νικόλαος Φώσκολος, born 11 December 1936 in Komi, Tinos, Greece) was the Archbishop of Athens and Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rhodes.
Biography
Foscolos was ordained pries ...
, Archbishop of Athens and
Frangiskos Papamanolis
Frangkiskos Papamanolis ( el, Φραγκίσκος Παπαμανώλης; 5 December 1936 – 2 October 2023) was a Greek Roman Catholic prelate who was the Bishop of Syros and Milos, Bishop of Santorini and Apostolic Administrator of Crete.
...
, Bishop of Syros. He also held the office of the Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki, which has not been led by a bishop since 1929.
Pope Francis
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accepted his resignation from these positions on 14 September 2020.
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-church-corfu.org/sev.html
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1940 births
Living people
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Greece
Roman Catholic archbishops of Corfu
Capuchin bishops
Greek people of Maltese descent
Clergy from Corfu