Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II was born in Heraklion in Crete in 1954. He
studied theology at the University of Thessaloniki, and was ordained deacon
in 1975 and
priest in 1978. In 1985 he became Exarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria
in Odessa, and in 1990 was elected Bishop of Cyrene. In 1997 he was elected
Metropolitan
of Cameroon (where he also followed the previous Patriarch, Petros) and in
2002 Metropolitan of Zimbabwe.
He was the Metropolitan of Zimbabwe, Archbishop Theodoros when he was elected
on the 9th Oct 2004 as the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. Pope
and Patriarch Theodoros
is
the
130th
Patriarch in
the line of succession from St Mark the Evangelist, who established the
Christian Church in Alexandria in AD 42, and is the spiritual leader of
Orthodox Christians in Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.
He was elected to succeed Pope Petros VII, who was killed in a helicopter
crash on 11 September, along with the Metropolitans of Carthage and Pelousian
(Port Said) and the Bishop of Madagascar.
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