Episcopalus Vicar of the American Archdiocese
Bishop Timofey | ||
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Πίσκοπος Τιμόθεος | ||
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April 22, 1962 - December 21, 1977 | ||
Birth name | Alkiviadis Halofthys | |
Original name at birth | Αλκιβιάδης Χαλόφτης | |
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Biography
Living in Megara, received primary and secondary education. In 1934 he graduated from the Theological Faculty of the University of Athens , which in 1939 with a degree in theology [1] .
In 1936, Metropolitan of Carista Panteleimon was ordained a deacon with the name of Timothy. In the same year he was ordained to the priesthood with the elevation of the archimandrite [2] .
Served as abbot of the monastery of the Transfiguration Monastery in Karisti . Then he served as a preacher of the Argolian Metropolis [2] .
In 1940, during the Italian-Greek war, he served as a military priest at the front. Then he served as a military priest at the Evelpid Military School in Athens. He was awarded the Greek Orthodox Church for service in wartime [3] .
In 1949-1951 he studied in graduate school at the Paris Catholic Institute in France, with a scholarship from the French government [2] [1] .
In the years 1949-1956 he served in the Church of St. George in Kytheli, Athens [4] .
In 1956, he left to serve in Canada, where he became the prior of the community of St. Demetrius in Winnipeg , Manitoba , in the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of North and South America of the Constantinople Patriarchate [2] .
In 1957, Archimandrite Timothy was transferred to New York , where he was appointed rector of the Church of St. Eleutherius. While serving there, he was elected chairman of the Council of Priests of the First Archbishop District, as well as the President of the Institute for the Elderly Greek Archdiocese in Yonkers, New York [2] .
In 1960, he was appointed Archpriest of the American Archdiocese by Archbishop of American Jacob (Kukusis) . At that time, he also taught at the Orthodox Theological School of the Holy Cross in Brookline ( Mass. ) [2] .
On April 22, 1962, he was ordained a titular bishop of Rhodostol, vicar of the American Archdiocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople [5] . He was appointed Governor of the Buenos Aires Vicariate of the American Archdiocese.
Since 1963 - Managing Director of the Ninth (Toronto) District of the American Archdiocese [3] , covering the territory of Canada.
Since 1967 - Managing Director of the Second (Chicago) District of the American Archdiocese, covering the territories of the states of Illinois , Wisconsin , Iowa , Minnesota , Missouri, and part of Indiana [3] .
He died of cancer on December 21, 1977 in Chicago [3] .
Notes
- 2 1 2 3 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 114, Part 14 of the US Government Printing Office, 1968
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://orthodoxcanada.ca/Bishop_Timotheos_(Haloftis)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Bishop Timotheos [obituary], The Blade (Toledo, OH), December 23, 1977, p. 12
- ↑ ΙΕΡΟΣ ΝΑΟΣ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ ΚΥΨΕΛΗΣ | megalomartys
- ↑ Επίσκοπος Ροδοστόλο Τιμόθεος Χαλόφτης (+ 21-12-1977)