Christakis Charalambides

Role

Primate of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church.

Biography

Metropolitan Stephanos born Christakis Charalambides on April, 29th, 1940 is the current primate of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, in charge since 1999.

Career

Christakis Charalambides, the future metropolitan, graduated from the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological institute in Paris as well as from the University of Paris with a Master’s of Theology. He was ordained to the diaconate in 1963 and to the priesthood in 1968, serving in the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of France. In 1972 he was appointed episcopal vicar in Nice, and was consecrated to the episcopacy in 1987 as Bishop of Nazianzus and became secretary of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France. After Estonian independence, in 1996 the Estonian Orthodox Church was restored by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The General Assembly of the Church elected Bishop Stephanos as Metropolitan of Tallinn and Estonia, installed in 1999.

External Links

http://www.orthodoxa.org/GB/estonia/documentsEOC/historyEAOC.htm