[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Angelos Xirouchakis was born in the village of Souri, in the province of Apokoronas, in the prefecture of Chania, in 1872. In 1892, he became a monk at the Holy Monastery of Gouverneto. He was ordained a deacon in 1894 by Bishop Nikiforos of Kydonia and a presbyter in 1905 by the same bishop. <\/p>\n
He graduated from the Theological School of the Cross in Jerusalem in 1905. He served as parish priest at the Holy Church of St. George in Venice (1906-1920) and at the Holy Church of the Holy Trinity in Vienna (1920-1936). On March 1, 1936, he was ordained Bishop of Kydonia and Apokoronas. <\/p>\n
He passed away on February 24, 1958.<\/p>\n
After his death, his family donated part of his library to the Municipal Library of Chania (June 1958). The donation consists of 613 <\/strong>volumes, books <\/strong>of historical and religious content, magazines <\/strong>and photographs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n His collection is a separate closed collection and the books are classified and registered in our Library’s catalog. Readers can study the writings within the Library.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-xs-6″][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”877,868,869,870,871″ img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”See our latest news” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”.news_home”][vc_column][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”6″ element_width=”2″ gap=”20″ item=”basicGrid_ScaleInWithRotation” grid_id=”vc_gid:1667826378344-23b4f81c58f875b0d654f2696ba2054e-0″ taxonomies=”17″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Collection of Bishop Agathangelos Xirouchakis Angelos Xirouchakis was born in the village of Souri, in the province of Apokoronas, in the prefecture of Chania, in 1872. In 1892, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12251,"parent":17373,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"on","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"background-image","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17399","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17399\/revisions\/17400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarychania.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}