Metropolitan Joachim of Valaciadis ( Greek Μητροπολίτης Ιωακείμ Βαλασιάδης ; 1860 , Antigone, Princes' Islands - August 10, 1933 , Athens ) - Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople , Metropolitan of Nikopol and Prevez.
Biography
He was born in 1860 in Antigone, on the Princes' Islands, which were then part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied at the gymnasium at the Great School of the Nation. He graduated from the Theological School on the island of Halki , after which he was ordained deacon by Metropolitan Kallikon of Chalcedon (Fomaidis) [1] .
He served as protodeacon and priest in Chalcedon , and then in the Derk Metropolis [1] .
He was the junior secretary of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Great Protodeacon of the month Patriarch Dionysius V [1] .
July 16, 1894 becomes Metropolitan of Maronia instead of the Metropolitan Gabriel, who was forbidden to serve, [1] .
September 7, 1900 was transferred to the Rhodes Metropolis instead of Metropolitan Constantine (Alexandridis) [1] .
As Metropolitan of Rhodes, he took care of the spread of education in the territory entrusted to him. It was said about him that he measured to build schools more than temples [2]
March 13, 1910 moved to the Nikopol Metropolitanate [1] .
September 26, 1931 dismissed to retire due to illness [1] .
He died on August 10, 1933 in Athens. The funeral service in the cathedral of Athens was led by the Archbishop of Athens by Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ΙΩΑΚΕΙΜ ΒΑΛΑΣΙΑΔΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΡΟΔΟΥ (1900-1910) Archived October 13, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Παναγιώτης I. ΣΤΑΜΑΤΗΣ