Editing Larissa (section)

==Ecclesiastical history==
[[File:Pinios river and church of Agios Achilios.jpg|thumb|[[Pineios (Thessaly)|Pineios]] river with the church of [[Achillius of Larissa|St. Achillios]] in the background, patron saint of the city]]

Christianity penetrated early to Larissa, though its first bishop is recorded only in 325 at the [[First Council of Nicaea|Council of Nicaea]]. [[Achillius of Larissa|St. Achillius]] of the fourth century, is celebrated for his miracles. [[Michel Le Quien|Le Quien]] cites twenty-nine [[Metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos#Known bishops|bishop]]s from the fourth to the 18th centuries;<ref name="Le Quien">{{Oriens Christianus|volume=2|article=Ecclesia Larissæ|at=cols. 103–112}}</ref> the most famous is Jeremias II, who occupied the see until 733, when the Emperor [[Leo III the Isaurian]] transferred it from the jurisdiction of the [[Pope of Rome]] to the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople|Patriarchate of Constantinople]]. In the first years of the tenth century it had ten suffragan sees;<ref>[[Heinrich Gelzer]], "Ungedruckte. . .Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum", Munich, 1900, 557.</ref> subsequently the number increased and about the year 1175 under the Emperor [[Manuel I Komnenos|Manuel I Comnenus]], it reached twenty-eight.<ref>[[Parthey]], ''[[Hieroclis Synecdemus]]'', Berlin, 1866, 120.</ref> At the close of the 15th century, under the Ottoman domination, there were only ten suffragan sees,<ref>Gelzer, op. cit., 635.</ref> which gradually grew less and finally disappeared.

[[File:Larissa Synagogue c.jpg|thumb|200px|Interior of the Jewish [[synagogue]] of Larissa]]
[[File:Public Christmas tree in Larissa.jpg|thumb|Public Christmas tree near St. Achillios]]
Larissa is an [[Metropolis of Larissa and Tyrnavos|Orthodox Metropolis]] of the [[Church of Greece]].

It was also briefly a [[Latin Archbishopric of Larissa|Latin archbishopric]] in the early 13th century, and remains a Latin Metropolitan (top-ranking) [[titular see]] of the Roman Catholic Church, which must not be confused with the Latin episcopal (low-ranking) titular see [[Shaizar|Larissa in Syria]]. Today there is a Catholic church in the city (Sacred Heart of Jesus).