Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Background

Papadopoulos, Dimitrios was born on September 8, 1914 in Istanbul.

Education

Doctorate.Theol., School of Halki, Heybeliada-Istanbul, 1937.

Career

Ordained deacon of the Eastern Orthodox Church, 1937, priest, 1942, bishop, 1964. Secretary, preacher, Edessa, Greece, 1937-1938. Deacon, priest, preacher, Ferikoy, Istanbul, 1939-1945.

Priest Orthodox Community, Tehran, Iran, 1945-1950.

Head priest Orthodox Community, Ferikoy, 1950-1964. Bishop of Elaia, Auxiliary Bishop of Patriarch Athenagoras, Istanbul.

Bishop, Kurtulus, Istanbul, 1964-1972, Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, 1972. Elected to Holy and Sacred Synod.

Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, under the name Dimitrios I, 1972-1991.

Died October 2, 1991.

Achievements

• Dimitrios Papadopoulos has been listed as a noteworthy archbishop by Marquis Who's Who.