[[Image:Gregorios.jpg|right|frame|His Eminence Archbishop Gregorios, was born in (Theocharous) of Thyateira and Great Britain]]His Eminence Archbishop '''Gregorios (Theocharous) of Thyateira and Great Britain''' is the present-day Turkish-occupied village current [[hierarch]] of Marathovounos in the district [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Famagusta, Cyprus, on 28th October 1928. He was the ninth Thyateira and last child of Great Britain]] under the family [[jurisdiction]] of the builder Theocharis and his wife Maria Hadjitofi. At the age [[Church of three he was orphaned through his father's deathConstantinople]].
==Life==He was born in the village of Marathovounos in the district of Famagusta, Cyprus, on [[October 28]], 1928 (it is now under Turkish military occupation). He was the ninth and last child of the family of the builder Theocharis and his wife Maria Hadjitofi. At the age of three he was orphaned through his father's death. After completing his primary education at the village school, the eleven-year-old Gregorios became an apprentice as a shoemaker in his brother-in-law Andreas Orthodoxou's shop, where he worked for the next eight years. On his 13th birthday (October 28, 1941) he heard on the only radio of the village that Greece had joined the war by refusing to allow Axis troops to enter its territory. At the age of 20 he decided to attend a secondary school; he enrolled in 1949 at the Higher Commercial School of the town of Lefkoniko which, at that time, had only five classes. He was accepted in the second-year class.
At the age of twenty In 1951, he decided transferred to attend the Pan-Cypriot Gymnasium, Nicosia, having become a secondary school for which [[monk|rasophore]], and he enrolled was later [[ordination|ordained]] [[deacon]] on the Sunday of [[Pentecost]], 1953, at the Church of St. Sava in Nicosia by the late [[Archbishop]] [[Makarios III (Mouskos) of Cyprus|Makarios III]]. He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1949 1954 and went to Athens to study at the Higher Commercial Theological School of the town University. Before receiving his university degree in February 1959, he was appointed to the Church of Lefkoniko which, All Saints in London. He arrived there and started his duties at that time, had only five classesthe Church of the Holy Saints in Camden Town in April 1959. He was accepted in ordained [[presbyter]] by the late Archbishop of Thyateira, Athenagoras (Kawadas), on the [[April 26]] of the second-same year class.
In 1951 1964 he transferred to was appointed [[Chancellor]] of the famous Pan-Cyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, having become a rasopherArchdiocese of Thyateira. On [[December 12]], and 1970 he was later ordained deacon on consecrated ''Bishop of Tropaiou'' by the Sunday blessed former Archbishop of PentecostThyateira, Athenagoras Kokkinakis, 1953 at the Cathedral of St. Sophia. From the first day of his ordainance he undertook to organize and administer the St. Mary's Cathedral and the Church of St. Sawa Barnabas the Apostle in Nicosia by the late Archbishop Makarios the ThirdWood Green, North London.
He graduated from On [[April 16]], 1988 he was unanimously elected by the Sacred Synod of the Gymnasium in 1954 Ecumenical Patriarchate as ''Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain'' and went to Athens to study his [[enthronement]] took place at the Theological School Cathedral of the UniversitySophia in West London. Before receiving his university degree in February 1959His tireless program saw him attending many community events, he was appointed to the Church of All Saints both in London, arriving there and starting his duties at around the country. His quiet and reasoned voice upholds both the Church concerns of the Holy Saints in Camden Town in April 1959Greek Orthodox community and expresses the Christian message of peace and reconciliation. He was ordained presbyter by During the late Archbishop of ThyateiraKosovo conflict, in 1999, Athenagoras Kawadasbetween the local Albanians and the Serbian army where NATO forces intervened, he was interviewed on BBC radio. Through his questions, the 26th journalist appeared keen for Gregorios to side with the (fellow) Orthodox Serbs and criticize NATO. His Eminence simply stated that it was time for reconciliation and especially a time "of the same monthrepentance for all of us."
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On 16th April 1988 he was unanimously elected by the Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as ==External links==*[http://www.thyateira.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=29 Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain ] (Archdiocese of Thyateira and his enthronement took place Great Britain)*[http://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/great_britain/current.htm#gregorios_arch_thyateira Listing] at the Cathedral Orthodox Research Institute [[Category:Bishops]][[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]][[Category:Bishops of Sophia in West London.Thyateira and Great Britain]]
