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George Stergiou was born in 1961 in AttikisMegara. He was tonsured a [[monk]] in 1984, with the name Gregory, at the [[Monastery]] of St. Paraskeve Maziou of the [[Metropolis]]of Megara and Salamina. Gregory was [[ordination|ordained]] [[deacon]] in 1984. He was ordained a [[priest]] in 1988 and also raised to the rank of [[archimandrite]] by Metropolitan Vartholomaios Bartholomew of Megara and Salamina. He served in the Metropolis of Megara and Salamina and studied design, drawing, iconography as well as theology at the University of Athens, receiving his degree in Social Theology in 1988.

He was assigned as director of the Private Patriarchal Office by Patriarch [[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria|Petros VII]], for the period of January 2001 to July 2002. Fr. Gregory served as the [[parish]] priest of the Church of St. Theodoros Theodore in Rome, Italy while studying at the Pontificium Universita Greogiana Pontifical Gregorian University from May 2003. During this time he also was the Archdiocesan [[Vicar]] of Central Italy of the [[Metropolis]] of Italy.

On [[October 27]], 2004, Fr. Gregory was elected Metropolitan of [[Cameroon ]] by the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Church of Alexandria]]. He was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] by [[Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of Alexandria|Pope Theodoros II]] on [[November 25]], 2004 at the Church of [[Sabbas the Sanctified|St. Savvas the Sanctified]]. He was enthrone enthroned by the Patriarch in YaoundeYaoundé, Cameroon, on [[January 23]], 2005.

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