Dorotheus was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1956 to 1957. He was born in Hydra

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 in 1888 and studied theology at the University of Athens, from where he graduated in 1909. He then studied law at the Universities of Athens and Leipzig

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, and specialised in ecclesiastical law. For a brief period, he was a schoolteacher in Sparta

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He became a monk

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, and was ordained a deacon

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 on September 18, 1910 by the then Metropolitan Bishop of Hydra and Spetses Ioasaph and served as a deacon for nine years in the Church of St George Carytses in Athens. On December 18, 1922 he was ordained a priest

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 by the then Metropolitan Bishop of Hydra and Spetses Procopius. Two days later, he was ordained a bishop by the then Metropolitan Bishops of Fthiotida Ambrosius and Syros Athanasius, and was appointed Metropolitan Bishop of Kythera and Antikythera

Antikythera

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On January 15, 1935, he was transferred to the diocese of Larissa

Larissa

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 and Platmon from where he was appointed Archbishop of Athens and All Greece on March 29, 1956, succeeding Archbishop Spyridon

Spyridon of Athens

Spyridon , was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1949 until 1956. He was born in Chili , in present-day northern Turkey, and studied at the Halki seminary...

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He died in Stockholm

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 on July 26, 1957. During his life, he wrote over forty treatises on ecclesiastical law.