METROPOLITAN KALLINIKOS OF PIRAEUS
Date of Elevation to Metropolitan:
1978
Date of Consecration:
1975
Date of Ordination to the Priesthood:
1959
Date of Ordination to the Diaconate:
1956
Date of Birth:
1926
Full Name:
Kallinikos Karousos
Biography
His Eminence Metropolitan Kallinikos (Karousos) was born in 1926 in Valtholomio, Ilia. He has studied Theology. He was ordained a deacon in 1956 and a priest in 1959. He served as abbot of Varlaam monastery in Meteora, dean of Apostoliki Diakonia and principal of the "Ecclesiastical Truth", the official newspaper of the Church of Greece. He was elected and ordained as titular bishop in 1975. He was elected as Metropolitan of Pireas in 1978.
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