Chania welcomes His Holiness Bishop Tamisos Panaretostranslated

On Sunday, October 11, 2026, at the Holy Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of Chania, our Most Reverend Metropolitan Mr. Titos will officially welcome the Theophilus Bishop of Tamissos Mr. Panaretos, Patriarchal Exarch of Lithuania. The presence of Theofilestatus in his birthplace is a special joy for the local Church, which welcomes with love one of its children who serves the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Orthodoxy in Lithuania.

The Most Reverend Mr. Panaretos, born Mattheos Psarautis, was born in Chania in 1980 and studied at the Ecclesiastical High School of Agios Matthaios of Chania. He followed ecclesiastical and theological studies in Thessaloniki and Athens and ministered in the Holy Archdiocese of Crete and the Holy Metropolis of Rethymno and Avlopotamos. Since 2013, he has been serving in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, undertaking the ministry of Slavic-speaking and Russian-speaking communities, while he was Grand Preacher of the Holy and Great Church of Christ.

In May 2026 he was elected Bishop of Tamissos and appointed Patriarchal Exarch of Lithuania. Ordained Bishop by the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew in the Patriarchal Church of Agios Georgios in Fanari. The Patriarchal Exarchy…