Germanos I of Old Patras

Germanos I of Old Patras was a Greek hierarch, metropolitan of Old Patras from 1561 until 1571 or 1572, and a fighter against Ottoman rule.

In 1565 he took part in the synod that deposed Patriarch Joasaph II on a charge of simony, as well as in the synod for the confirmation of the Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible as tsar. During his ministry, on 7 October 1571, the naval battle of Lepanto took place in the Gulf of Patras. After the victory of the Christian forces, an uprising broke out in the city of Patras, led by Germanos together with notables and priests of the Peloponnese. The uprising was quickly crushed, the Ottomans destroyed Patras and killed Germanos, after torture, along with his nephew, the notable Demetrios.