Proterios Pavlopoulos
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Proterios Pavlopoulos (Greek: Προτέριος Παυλόπουλος; born 28 July 1946) is the Metropolitan of Diospol under the Eastern Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Biography
Born in 1946 in Koronos, Naxos. His collegiate level education was at the Higher Faculty of the University of Athens. His post graduate education continued at Durham University in England, where he specialised in the field of patristics.
Stylianos was ordained deacon and priest in 1972, by His Eminence Methodios of Aksum. Over the following years Fr. Proterios served in a number of countries including Ethiopia, Malta, Great Britain, South Africa, and Greece in various positions including chancellor and hierarchal vicar.
He was elected, on February 22, 2001, Archbishop of the new Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam in eastern Tanzania by the Holy Synod. He was consecrated on March 3, 2001. On October 27, 2004 to the see of Metropolitan of Ptolemais.
Sources
- Ostkirchliches Institut Regensburg
- ΜΙΚΡΕΣ - ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ - ΜΕΓΑΛΕΣ
- Μητροπόλεις Πατριαρχικού Θρόνου
- ΙΕΡΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ – ΠΡΩΤΗ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ
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Preceded by Parthenios Danielides | Metropolitan of Ptolemais 27 October 2004 — 26 November 2014 | Succeeded by Emmanuel Kagias |