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e. Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou ( Greek: Αρχιεπίσκοπος Δαμασκηνός Παπανδρέου ), born Dimitrios Papandreou ( Greek: Δημήτριος Παπανδρέου; 3 March 1891 – 20 May 1949) was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the ...
May 16, 2024 · Damaskinos was the archbishop of Athens and regent of Greece during the civil war of 1944–46, under whose regency came a period of political reconstruction. He was a private in the army during the Balkan Wars (1912) and was ordained priest in 1917.
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Sep 2, 2012 · His Beatitude Damaskinos (Papandreou) of Athens and All Greece was the primate of the Church of Greece for two periods: in 1938 for a month and from 1941 to 1949 during the Second World War. He also served as regent of Greece between the retreat of the German occupation force from Greece in 1944 and the return of King George II in 1946.
Feb 5, 2022 · Damaskinos Papandreou was the Archbishop of Athens from 1941 to 1949. This position made him the highest-ranking priest in Greece, which was under German occupation at the time. He helped those who were deemed criminals by the Nazis, and when Greek Jews started being exterminated, he used his power and influence to save as many lives as he could.
Jan 4, 2018 · In 1938, Damaskinos was voted by the Greek Orthodox Church into the position of “Archbishop of Athens and All of Greece.” However, fearing his democratic sentiments and support for former Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Eleftherios Venizelos, the dictatorship at the time overturned the decision in the courts.
Nov 25, 2013 · Damaskinos, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, served as the Primate of the Autocephalous Church of Greece during the Second World War. Born in the village of Dorvitsa in Greece in 1890, the nephew of the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Koroni, he served in the Greek Army during the Balkan wars, and was ordained to the holy Priesthood in 1917.
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Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Dimitrios Chrysostomos. On 23 March 1943, when the expulsion of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz began, Archbishop Thophilos Damaskinos of Athens and all Greece published an outspoken condemnation of the deportation of Greece’s Jews. "I have taken up my cross," Demaskinos proclaimed. "I spoke to the Lord, and ...
