Dimitrios
Demetrios Benetatos was born on September 9, 1884. He was the son of Constantine Benetatos and Catherine (Diamanti) Benetatos, and later married Irene E. Lykiardopouls. His diplomatic career placed him in several important centers of Greek foreign representation in the eastern Mediterranean and Europe, including Bursa, Rhodes, and Jerusalem.
Benetatos studied at the National University of Athens, completing his studies in 1907. He subsequently attended the School of Political Sciences in Paris from 1908 to 1909. This sequence of education preceded his entry into the Greek diplomatic service in 1910.
Benetatos entered the Greek diplomatic service in 1910 as an attaché in the State Department of Greece. He served as vice-consul in 1911 and 1912, including a posting in Bursa in 1914, where Greek consular telegrams record his reports concerning the condition of Greek communities during the upheavals of the period. From 1912 to 1913 he also served in the State Department. He was vice-consul from 1914 to 1917 and became director of a general consulate from 1917 to 1918. After serving as secretary of a Greek legation, he was consul in Rhodes in 1921 and held further consular appointments from 1918 onward. In 1930 he was formally recognized as Consul-General of Greece at Jerusalem. He continued in senior consular service through the 1930s, serving as consul-general from 1921 to 1943, and was appointed resident minister on June 20, 1943. He retired from active service on August 1, 1943.
Benetatos was associated with the Rotary of Chicago.
Benetatos was the son of Constantine Benetatos and Catherine (Diamanti) Benetatos. He was married to Irene E. Lykiardopouls.
