Arsenios Kardamakis
orthodox metropolitan bishop
Metropolitan Arsenios (Secular name: Arsenios Kardamakis Greek: Ἀρσένιος Καρδαμάκης; born October 31, 1973) is a bishop in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Metropolitan of Austria since 2011.
Early life and education
Arsenios was born on October 31, 1973, in Heraklion, Greece. He went to high school in Athens and studied Orthodox theology in Athens and Thessaloniki, and also studied Catholic theology at the University of Strasbourg, where he obtained a doctorate in 2011. In 1998 he was ordained into the deaconate and as a priest in 2002. He was tonsured a monk at the Monastery of Saint George of Epanosifi in Crete. In 2004 he became Vicar General of the Metropolis of France, and from 2005 to 2012 he acted as co-secretary of the World Council of Churches in France.
Bishop
At the age of 38, Arsenios was elected as Metropolitan of Austria on November 3, 2011, and enthroned on December 4. He was inaugurated at the Orthodox Trinity Church in Vienna. In attendance were Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Metropolitan Dimitrios (Ploumis). With his election, he also became chairman of the Orthodox Bishops' Conference for Austria.
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