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His Grace Kyrillos Bishop of Olympus

His Grace Kyrillos Bishop of Olympus

His Grace Kyrillos Bishop of Olympus (Ioannis Papanthimou), was born in Rhodes on 2nd December 1980, raised in Archipolis village, where he completed his general and secondary education and then he studied Theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

With a scholarship  from the Nikaean Ecumenical Trust, he has also completed further studies at Abacus College in Oxford England . After he received a scholarship from St. Mary’s University Twickenham, London, he continued with his Postgraduate studies and has been awarded with Masters of Arts in Pastoral Theology with distinction after successful completion of postgraduate studies.

His Grace was ordained to deaconate on 8th December 2004 and to priesthood on 1st August 2009. He served as Deacon and Archdeacon of His Eminence Metropolitan of Rhodes, as Preacher of the Holy Metropolis of Rhodes, as parish priest at St. Nicholas parish of Paradeisi district in Rhodes and as director of the private office of His Eminence Metropolitan of Rhodes Kyrillos. He has been the Secretary of the Committee of Religious and Pilgrimage Tourism of the Holy Metropolises of Dodecanese since 2013 to this day and administrator of the website of the Holy Metropolis of Rhodes.

On 30th August 2017 he was elected unanimously by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople upon the recommendation of His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos, Auxiliary Bishop of His Eminence Metropolitan Kyrillos of Rhodes

He was ordained a Bishop by the Metropolitan of Rhodes Kyrillos on Saturday 30th September 2017 at the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Cathedral in Rhodes.

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