Archbishop Ezekiel Tsoukalas ( el, Ιεζεκιήλ Τσουκαλάς; 13 May 1913 – 1 July 1987) was a

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bishop and the first

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in the

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. Archbishop Ezekiel was an assistant bishop in the

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from 1950 to 1959. He had served as a bishop in Boston and Chicago. He had been assistant director of

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in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1943 and became director in 1949.

Archbishop of Australia

Archbishop Ezekiel was elected the fourth Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand in February 1959. He replaced Metropolitan

Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan Theophylactos (born Vasileios Papathanasopoulos; 1891–1958) was a Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Biography Papathanasopoulos was born on the feast of St. Basil on 1 January 189 ...

, the third metropolitan, who was killed in a car crash in 1958. On 1 September 1959, the Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand was elevated to an Archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel was elevated to Archbishop. In 1970 the Metropolis of New Zealand was created, so Archbishop Ezekiel became the

. In August 1974, the Ecumenical Patriarchate promoted Archbishop Ezekiel to the Metropolis of Pisidia where he remained until 1987. He died in Athens in July 1987. On 3 February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected the Metropolitan of Miletoupolis, Archbishop Stylianos, a lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsoukalas, Ezekiel 1913 births People from Brookline, Massachusetts Eastern Orthodox archbishops in Australia Australian people of Greek descent Greek Orthodox bishops of Boston 1987 deaths 20th-century Eastern Orthodox archbishops Greek expatriate bishops