Archbishop Chrysostomus II ( Greek Αρχιεπίσκοπος Χρυσόστομος в, in the world of Themistoclis Hadzistavru , Greek Θεμιστοκλής Χατζησταύρου ; 1878 Greek Orthodox Monastery of India 1967 the primate of the latter with the title Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas .
Biography
At the age of 17, high school student Themistoklos Hatsistavru inspired his fellow practitioners to secretly leave the island. They reached Athens and demanded that they be enlisted in the Greek army to fight the Turks. The boys were denied.
He successfully graduated from the gymnasium course on the island of Samos and in 1902 - the Theological School on the island of Halki . In 1902, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Drama was ordained deacon .
In 1906-1910 he studied at the Law Faculty of Lausanne University .
Upon returning to his homeland, he served as archdeacon of the Smyrna Metropolis.
As archdeacon of Metropolitan Chrysostomos, he played a decisive role in the uprising in Eastern Macedonia. After the death of Pavlos, Melas maintained secret contacts with Athens to create a local defense committee and organize military operations. He was sentenced in absentia to imprisonment for 4 years by the Turkish military court of Thessaloniki .
He fled with the help of the Patriarchate, and returned in 1908 after the Young Turkish Revolution and general amnesty.
On December 26, 1910, he was consecrated bishop of Thrall, vicar of Metropolitan of Smyrna .
On March 16, 1913, the Patriarch of Constantinople appointed him to the chair of the Metropolitan of Philadelphia .
During the administration of the Philadelphia Metropolis Chrysostom for national liberation, he was sentenced to death by the Sultanate governor Rahmen Bey . Vigorous interventions and petitions of influential persons saved him from execution then.
Since February 19, 1922 - Metropolitan of Ephesus .
The tragic events that took place in 1922 on the coast of Smyrna led to the martyrdom of his teacher and patron, Metropolitan of Smyrna Chrysostom. He moved to Greece , where on February 5, 1924 he was elected Metropolitan of Rhodes. April 30, 1924 retired.
On August 30, 1924, he was determined by the Metropolitan of Veria and Naous with the order to be a trustee for refugees from Asia Minor , and on October 7 of the same year he was transferred to the newly formed Philippine Metropolitanate .
In 1961, Metropolitan Chrysostomos chaired the First Pan-Orthodox Rhodes Conference . Then he established warm relations with delegates from the Russian Orthodox Church .
On February 14, 1962 he was elected Archbishop of Athens and All Hellas .
In May 1967, after the April coup, Archbishop Chrysostom, under pressure from the new military government , was removed from the Athenian throne on May 11, 1967.
He died on June 9, 1968. Buried in the First Athens Cemetery .