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The Ionian Sea is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily, and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and the west coast of Greece, including the Peloponnese.
Paxi or Paxoi and Antipaxoi or Antipaxos is the smallest island group within the Ionian Islands. In Greek it is a plural form. The largest islands are Paxos and Antipaxos Antipaxos is famous for its wine and sand beaches. The main town of Paxoi and the seat of the municipality is Gaios. The municipality has an area of 30,121 km2 (11,630 sq mi). The area of the island is 76 square kilometres (29 sq mi). In Greek mythology, Poseidon created the island by striking Corfu with his trident, so that he and his wife Amphitrite could have some peace and quiet.
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. The cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex. Aside from its main building, the cathedral includes an ensemble of supporting structures such as a bell tower and the House of Metropolitan. In 2011 the historic site was reassigned from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. One of the reasons for the move was that both Saint Sophia Cathedral and Kiev Pechersk Lavra are recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Program as one complex, while in Ukraine the two were governed by different government entities.
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods. It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of Orthodox Christianity in the Byzantine era and absorbed Italian and European ideas during the period of Romanticism, until the Modernist and Postmodernist. Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry making.
Sophia is a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism, and Christian theology. Originally carrying a meaning of "cleverness, skill", the later meaning of the term, close to the meaning of Phronesis, was significantly shaped by the term philosophy as used by Plato.
The Catholic Church in Greece is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Indigenous Roman Catholic Greeks number about 50,000-70,000 and are a religious and not an ethnic minority. Most of them are a reminiscence of Venetian and Genoese rule in southern Greece and many Greek islands from the early 13th until the late 18th century, or descendants of the thousands of Bavarians that came to Greece in the 1830s as soldiers and civil administrators, accompanying King Otto. One very old but still common term to refer to them is Φράγκοι, or "[[Franks#Legacy|]]", dating to the times of the Byzantine Empire, when medieval Greeks would use that term to describe all Catholics.
The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain is an Archdiocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church, part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Its present head is Archbishop Nikitas Loulias. Its jurisdiction covers those Orthodox Christians living in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. The adherents are largely of Cypriot Greek descent, mainland Greek migrants and their descendants, and more recently native British converts along with a few Poles, Belarusians, and Ukrainians. The former Archbishop Gregorios himself was a Cypriot whose ancestral village of Marathovounos, in the district of Famagusta, is occupied by the Turkish army. The Archdiocese is based at Thyateira House, in the Bayswater district of London.
Holy Wisdom is a concept in Christian theology.
Santa Sofia a Via Boccea is a church in Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to Holy Wisdom, one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. It served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church while St. George's Cathedral in Lviv was controlled by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral was founded as a church in 1904 to serve the Greek Orthodox residents of the District of Columbia. In 1962, the church was elevated to a cathedral under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of America in New York City and serves as his cathedral in Washington. The church is not named for Saint Sophia the martyr, but rather the Holy Wisdom of God in the tradition of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople. The building is in the Neo-Byzantine style with a central dome that reaches 80 ft (24 m) in height.
Selianitika is a coastal village in northern Achaea, Peloponnese, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Sympoliteia. It is located 6 km northwest of Aigio and 26 km east of Patras, at about 30m above sea level. The villages Selianitika and Longos share a beautiful beach of fine gravel on the Gulf of Corinth which is approximately 1.5 km long. Both villages are among the most popular summer destinations of Achaea.
The Heptanese School of painting succeeded the Cretan School as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school it combined Byzantine traditions with an increasing Western European artistic influence, and also saw the first significant depiction of secular subjects. The school was based in the Ionian Islands, which were not part of Ottoman Greece, from the middle of the 17th century until the middle of the 19th century.
Saint Sophia Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church on Moscow Road in the Bayswater area of London.
Christodoulos (Χριστόδουλος) is a Greek given name. It is a theophoric name which means "servant of Christ". It can refer to:
Katerina Grolliou was a Greek artist, who was born in Athens and died in Florence, Italy, in 2017, aged 59. She designed and produced handmade jewellery, microsculpture, painting in relief, and poetry. Examples of her work are held in the collections of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, the Athens Municipality Cultural Centre, and the Corfu Municipal Gallery, and were included in two publications, Greek Jewellery: 5000 Years of Tradition and Greek Jewellery: 6000 Years of Tradition.
Vangelis Rinas is a Greek painter and sculptor having his roots in the Northeastern Aegean Sea. He was born on Samos island, but grew up in Ikaria island in 1966. He holds an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and lives and works in Athens and New York. He express himself through various materials. He has created paintings sculptures, prints and installations. Since 1992 he enjoys shows in Greece and abroad and participates in international biennials. Among them, his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and his latest solo show at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York. Since 2000 he has presented three solo exhibitions entitled "Endless Sailing" All three included paintings and sculpture. His sculpture has been installed in the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing with Chinese ideograms and Braille writing.
Nikos Stratakis is a Greek painter of the contemporary period. He was born in Heraklion, Crete. He grew up in Athens and he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts. His professors were Yannis Moralis and Dimitris Mytaras (painting) and Vassilis Vassiliadis. As a student he worked as a set designer assistant and as a set designer for Greek and foreign film productions. After his graduation, he has been working strictly as a painter, professionally. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. His works can be found in the collections of Greek museums, ministries and in notable private collections in Greece and abroad.
Charalambos Pachis was a Greek painter of the Heptanese school who specialized in landscapes and historical scenes.
Periklis Tsirigotis was a Greek Orientalist painter.