He was a Greek Patriarchalist Metropolitan bishop of Kastoria from 1900 until 1907 appointed in the name of the Greek state by the ambasador of Greece Nikolaos Mavrokordatos and was one of the main coordinators of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia that had an aim to defend the greek nationalistic and clerical interests against the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in then Ottoman Turkish occupied Macedonia.
He organized armed groups comprised mainly of officers of the Greek army volunteers brought from Crete, Peloponnese and other parts of Greece then various criminals as well as few recruited locals such as the chieftain Vangel (Vangelis Strebreniotis) from the village of Strebreno (now Asprogia) and Kote Hristov (Kotas Hristos), a renegade from IMRO from the village of Rulya (later renamed by the Greek authorities as Kotas in his honour ).
Using methods such as: bribery, manipulation, assassinations, espionage, betrayal, Divide et impera and collaboration with the Ottoman Turkish occupators Karavangelis succeeded to enstrenghten the greek nationalistic positions in Macedonia and thus according to the greek historians helped the later annexation of a part of Macedonia by Greece in the Balkan Wars for what official Greece praises him as a national hero of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia ("makedonomacho"), while at the same time he's considered as a war criminal by the historians in Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria.
He is personally responsible for various crimes committed against the local population in Macedonia including, among other things his personal involement in the planning and organization of the massacre in the village of Zagorichani (later renamed Vasilyas) executed by the greek armed groups on the 25th of March 1905.
He is an author of the book of memoirs "The Macedonian Struggle"
He organized armed groups comprised mainly of officers of the Greek army volunteers brought from Crete, Peloponnese and other parts of Greece then various criminals as well as few recruited locals such as the chieftain Vangel (Vangelis Strebreniotis) from the village of Strebreno (now Asprogia) and Kote Hristov (Kotas Hristos), a renegade from IMRO from the village of Rulya (later renamed by the Greek authorities as Kotas in his honour ).
Using methods such as: bribery, manipulation, assassinations, espionage, betrayal, Divide et impera and collaboration with the Ottoman Turkish occupators Karavangelis succeeded to enstrenghten the greek nationalistic positions in Macedonia and thus according to the greek historians helped the later annexation of a part of Macedonia by Greece in the Balkan Wars for what official Greece praises him as a national hero of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia ("makedonomacho"), while at the same time he's considered as a war criminal by the historians in Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria.
He is personally responsible for various crimes committed against the local population in Macedonia including, among other things his personal involement in the planning and organization of the massacre in the village of Zagorichani (later renamed Vasilyas) executed by the greek armed groups on the 25th of March 1905.
He is an author of the book of memoirs "The Macedonian Struggle"
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