Emilianos Zacharopoulos

Emilianos Zacharopoulos (April 12, 1915 in Halki – September 8, 2011 in Athens) was the first Eastern Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, since 1969, under jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1983, he returned to Greece, became Metropolitan of Kos and retired in 2009.[http://info.catho.be/2011/09/09/deces-du-metropolite-emilianos-zacharopoulos/ Obituary in French]

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Literature

  • {{Cite book|last=Kiminas|first=Demetrius|title=The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs|year=2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLWqXrW2X-8C|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=9781434458766}}

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Category:Eastern Orthodox metropolitans

Category:Eastern Orthodoxy in Belgium

Category:Eastern Orthodoxy in the Netherlands

Category:Eastern Orthodoxy in Luxembourg

Category:Bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Category:Eastern Orthodox bishops in Europe

Category:1915 births

Category:2011 deaths

Category:People from Princes' Islands

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