In the years of the 19th century the port of Archangelos was under the administration of the municipalitiy of Lira. The neighbouring villages Demonia and Elika were just a group of small houses made up of stone. The region belonged to the Agades Turks, who had left it ungrown for long years.

On the cape of Archangelos there was a small church in ruins, used as stable for the animals: it is from that church that the settlement of the region started.

In 1811 the metropolitan Hrissantos Pagonis, during a ministerial visit in Monemvasia, succeeded in knowing Archangelos. In fact, during that visit he received some money for the restoration of the little church in Archangelos, according the wish of a sailor survived a sea storm. Visiting the place, Hrissantos described the landscape as „deserted, with a wild vegetation, an infinite sight, the port quiet and protected from the wind, a charming view for the eyes of the visitor“.

He immediately decided to settle it and he tried to buy the land, but he had to fight with the hostility of the Turkish owners, who refused to sell the land although it was uncultivated. The metropolitan decided to address his matter to the ottoman court, since the law assigned to anyone was asking for te land left uncultivated for more than seven years. The sultan Mahmud II (1808-1839) gave Hrissantos the land and Pagonis started the work for the church and a pit nearby.

During the consecration of the church of St. Michael in Archangelos a clash happened with the Turks, who still demanded the right on the land: Hrissantos spoke to them and made them move away. In the following months he also built some little houses that were years later destructed by the crew of a Turkish fishing boat during a stop in Archangelos for a storm. They took away the wood used for the beams. Hrissantos Pagoinis wrote a complete note of the suffered damage and a list of the expenses supported, to underline once more his possession of the zone, but he could not enjoy the result of his hard work. With the revolution against the Turks the development of the village stopped and the metropolitan died in Tripolis in 1821, set in prison by the Turks. His heirs could not look after the land during the revolution: people abandoned everything to save their life.

During the occupation of Ibrahim Pasha (1825-1826) the Felouris family moved to Archangelos with all its property. They were opponents to the Turkish regime and had been chased form the village of Molos, near Lamia, by the pasha of that region. At first they settled in Peloponnese, in the village of Agriani at the bottom of Parnon mountain. They were persecuted by the Turks there too, and they scattered all over the region. A part of them went to Archangelos. Amoung the Felouris, Captain Kranidis is to be mentioned since he was member of the parliament in Athens. At the end of the Greek revolution, from 1842, a methodical repopulation of the region started, as Hrissantos Pagonis wished years before.

Today Archangelos ia a lovely seaside resort visited by many tourists.