Metropolitan of Nafpaktos

The Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου) is a metropolitan see of the Church of Greece. Its seat is the town of Nafpaktos (Naupaktos or Naupactus, in the late Middle Ages known as Lepanto) in southeastern Aetolia-Acarnania. The current metropolitan (since 1995) is Hierotheos (Vlachos).

The see of Nafpaktos is attested since the 4th century, and was initially a suffragan of Corinth and later of Athens.

Like the rest of Illyricum, Nafpaktos depended on the pope of Rome until 733, when Leo III the Isaurian annexed it to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Its bishop, Anthony, is attested among the participants of the councils held at Constantinople in 869–70 and 879–80.

When Nafpaktos became the seat of the new Byzantine thema of Nicopolis in the second half of the 9th century, the bishopric was elevated to a metropolitan see in the late 9th century, assuming the role which Nicopolis had formerly held.

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