Nikolaos Foskolos ( el, Νικόλαος Φώσκολος, born 11 December 1936 in

Komi, Tinos Komi ( el, Κώμη) is a small village and a community on the island of Tinos, a Cycladic island in Greece. The community consists of the settlements Kolympithra, Krokos, Komi, Perastra and Skalados. Its population was 318 at the 2011 census. It ...

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) was the

Archbishop of Athens The Archbishopric of Athens ( el, Ιερά Αρχιεπισκοπή Αθηνών) is a Greek Orthodox archiepiscopal see based in the city of Athens, Greece. It is the senior see of Greece, and the seat of the autocephalous Church of Greece. Its ...

and

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of the

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Biography

Foscolos was ordained priest on 1 October 1961. On 25 June 1973 he was appointed Archbishop of Athens and on 12 August 1973 he was ordained Archbishop by

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, Archbishop of Naxos, Andros, Tinos and Mykonos. From 1973 until his resignation on 12 August 2014 he was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens and Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rhodes, whom he was named in 1992. From 1992 to 2004 Foskolos was president of the

Episcopal Conference of Greece The Holy Synod of Catholic Bishops of Greece ( el, Ιερά Σύνοδος της Καθολικής Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος, ) is the Episcopal Conference (association of Catholic bishops) in Greece. It is a member of the Council ...

. His successor in both offices is the Rev. Fr. Sevastianos Rossolatos.

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* https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfoscolos.html 1936 births Living people Greek Roman Catholic archbishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Athens Roman Catholic archbishops of Rhodes People from Tinos {{RC-archbishop-stub