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NICOLA
D. CATRAMI
(1820-1886)

"Archbishop
Nicola Catrami", 1885
by Apostolos Latsis (1840-1909)
[Byron
Macris
Collection]
Son
of Dionisio Catrami and Pigi Chr. Plarino,
scholar and historian archbishop of Zante Nicola II was born on the
island. He studied in Corfu, first at the Theological
Seminary
and later at the Theological and Philosophical School of the Ionian
Academy. After being ordained into priesthood, he was
assigned as
theology teacher at Zante while at the same time officiating at the
church of Our Lady of the Revelation, close to his house.
Subsequently he went to Naples, Italy, where as parish priest of the
Greek-Orthodox Community (1865-1868) he succeeded in despatching the
Uniates. He then travelled to Rome and Venice in order to
study
their archives, libraries and museums. In 1868 he was
ordained
archbishop of Zante, where, among others, he founded the city
cemetery. As a member of the Holy Synod he was sent by the
Greek
Government to Odessa (1871) in order to carry over to Athens the
remains of Ecumenical patriarch Gregory V (born George J. Angelopoulo,
1745-1821), who was hanged in 1821. He delivered a memorial
speech there. With special interest in literary and
historical
research, he wrote and published a series of weighty studies and
biographies amongst which is the significant work "Literary Selections
from Zante" (1880). Due to a long illness and the political
intrigues of the time, he was dismissed shortly before his death, full
of bitterness. He was decorated with the Russian Imperial
Order
of St. Anne 2nd Class and the Silver and Gold Crosses of the Greek
Royal Order of the Redeemer and was named a Knight of the Italian Royal
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

Photo
(1872) of Dionisio N. Catrami
[Byron Macris Collection]
Before
being ordained archbishop, Nicola D.
Catrami was married and widowed to Constantina Riga, with whom he had
already had a son and a daughter. It is she who gave her name
to
their grand daughter, daughter of their son Dionisio N. Catrami,
Constantina (1900-1937) wife of Evangelos J.
Macris (1896-1943),
and thereafter to their great great grand
daughter Diana Macris-Cangelaris (1959).

Hand
coloured photo (1930) of Constantina D. Catrami
[Byron Macris Collection]
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