21st-Century Eastern Orthodox Clergy - 21st-Century Eastern Orthodox Bishops, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: 21st-century Eastern Orthodox bishops, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Patriarch Filaret, Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, Jonah, Nikolaos Loudovikos, Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Chrysostomos II Kioussis, Metropolitan Laurus, Victor Sokolov, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, Archbishop Stylianos, Kyrill, Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, Archbishop Yurij, Michael Harper, Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Nikon, John H. Erickson, Leo Makkonen, Antonio De Rosso, Jonah Lwanga, Giovanni Guaita. Excerpt: Christodoulos (17 January 1939 - 28 January 2008) (Greek: , born Christos Paraskevaidis, ) was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, from 1998 until his death, in 2008. Christodoulos was born in Xanthi, Thrace, Northern Greece in 1939. His civil name was Christos Paraskevaidis. When he was two years old, his family moved to Athens to escape German and Bulgarian occupation of the area during World War II. His father subsequently returned to Xanthi following the war and ran a successful bid for mayor. Christodoulos attended high school at the Roman Catholic Marist Leonteion Lyceum of Athens. He then studied law at the University of Athens, graduating in 1962, after having been ordained a deacon in the Orthodox Church in 1961. He also attended a graduate school at the University of Athens for a degree in theology. Christodoulos was ordained a priest in 1965 and graduated from the School of Theology in 1967. He worked as a parish priest in Palaio Faliro, a suburb of Athens, between 1965 and 1974. During that time he also became Chief Secretary of the Holy Synod of ...