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[[Image:Sotirios_of_Korea.jpg|left|frame|Metropolitan Sotirios]]
His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan '''Sotirios (Trambas) of Pisidia''' was the first [[Metropolitan]] of the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]]'s [[Orthodox Metropolis of Korea]]serving from 2004 to 2008.
==Life==
Sotirios (sometimes ''Soterios'') was born in Arta, Greece on [[July 17]], 1929. After graduating from high school in Arta, he graduated from the Theological School of the University of Athens in 1951. He then served as an army officer for two and a half years, and then as a preacher and [[catechist]] for two years in the middle and high school.
On [[April 20]], 2004, the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to elevate the Church of Korea to a Metropolitanate and on [[June 20]], 2004, Metropolitan Sotirios was enthroned as the first Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Korea at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Seoul.
After his resignation from the [[See ]] of the Holy Metropolis of Korea, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected him as Metropolitan of Pisidia on [[May 28]], 2008.
==Source==
*[http://orthodoxwww.orpatriarchate.krorg/patriarchate/hierarchy-of-the-throne/englishmetropolitans-throne/sotirios.htm Orthodox Metropolis -of Korea] ==External link==*[http-pisidia Patriarchae://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/new_zealand/current.htm#sotirios_bishop_zelon ListingSotirios of Pisidia] at the Orthodox Research Institute
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