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Petros was born as '''Petros Papapetrou''' in Sichari, Kyrenia, in what is today the self-proclaimed and internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on the island of Cyprus. He assumed the [[Patriarchate]] of [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]] on [[March 9]], 1997, following his election by the Alexandrian [[Holy Synod]] the previous [[February 21]]. Before his election, Petros had served as a [[deacon]] and a [[priest]], and was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] as a [[bishop]] in 1983. He had a close rapport with his predecessor, Pope [[Parthenios III of Alexandria]] and assumed the latter's post after his death in 1996.
His tenure was marked by renewed [[missionary]] efforts in Kenya, [[Uganda]], [[Madagascar]], [[Cameroon]], and elsewhere across the African continent.
Pope Petros died along with 16 others (including three other bishops of the Church of Alexandria: [[Metropolitan]] [[Chrysostomos (Papadopoulos) of Carthage]], Metropolitan [[Irenaeus (Talambekos) of Pilousion]], and Bishop [[Nektarios (Kellis) of Madagascar|Nektarios of Madagascar]]) when the helicopter carrying them crashed into the Aegean Sea while en route to the [[monastic]] enclave of [[Mount Athos]] in Greece. The cause of the crash remains unknown.
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before=[[Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania|Anastasios (Yannoulatos)]]|
title=Patriarchal Exarch of the [[Archdiocese of Irinoupolis]]|
years=1991-1994|
after=?[[Dimitrios (Zaharengas) of Irinoupolis|Dimitrios (Zaharengas)]]}}
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[[Category:Bishops]]
[[Category:Bishops of Accra]]
[[Category:Bishops of Irinoupolis]]
[[Category:Bishops of Cameroon]]
[[Category:Missionaries]]
[[Category:Patriarchs of Alexandria]]
[[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]]
