Metropolitan Timotheos of Australia

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Archimandrite Timothy (Evangelinidis) in Warsaw as part of a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who arrived to proclaim the autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church. 1925

Timotheos Evangelinidis (

Metropolis of Rhodes
from 1947 to 1949.

Early life

He was born as Tilemachos Evangelinidis (Τηλέμαχος Ευαγγελινίδης) in the village of Polichnitos, on the island of Lesbos (then still part of the Ottoman Empire), on 23 April 1880.[1]

He studied at the

Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Romanian Orthodox Church.[1]

Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand

Evangelinidis was elected as the second Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand in 1931. The position had officially remained vacant since 1928, when his predecessor Metropolitan

Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos had presided over the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand until Metropolitan Timotheos arrived in Australia on 26 January 1932 (Australia Day).[2]

On Sunday 10 November 1935, Timotheos opened and dedicated a Greek Orthodox church in Innisfail, Queensland. It was the second Greek Orthodox church to be opened in Queensland and the sixth in Australia.[3]

Metropolitan of Rhodes

On 16 January 1947, Metropolitan Timotheos was elected to head the

Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos
. In June 1949, he was elected Archbishop of North and South America but was unable to assume the post due to a cardiac arrest. Unable to travel, he was re-instated as Metropolitan of Rhodes until his death in Istanbul on 6 October 1949.[1][5][6] He was buried in the Balıklı Greek cemetery, until in 1961 his remains were transferred to his birthplace.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΡΟΔΟΥ ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΣ (1948 - 1950) (in Greek). Metropolis of Rhodes. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Papathanasopoulos, Theophylactos (1891–1958)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. Johnstone River Advocate And Innisfail News
    . Vol. 29, no. 89. Queensland, Australia. 12 November 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 3 February 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Archbishop Named for New York See, The New York Times, 8 June 1949
  5. ^ Timothy of Rhodes Dead at Age of 69, The New York Times, 7 October 1949
  6. ISBN 978-1434458766
    .
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Metropolitan Christoforos
 Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand
1931–1947 		Succeeded by
Metropolitan Theophylactos
Preceded by
Metropolitan of Rhodes

1947–1949 		Succeeded by
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