His Holiness '''Maximus V''' (born '''Maximos Vapordzis''', {{lang-el|Μάξιμος Βαπορτζῆς}}) was the 266th [[Image:Maximos_V.jpg|thumbChurch of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarch Maximus Vof Constantinople]]from 1946 to 1948.

His All-Holiness '''Maximus V''' (1897-1948), the 267th [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]] from 1946-1948, He was born in Sinope of Pontusin 1897, where he first began his primary education. He continued his academics studies at the [[Halki|Theological School of Halki]] under the protection of [[Metropolitan]] [[Germanos Karavaggelis]] of [[Amaseia]]. He was [[ordination|ordained ]] into the [[diaconate]] in 1918 and appointed a teacher in the City School of Theira. He served as the [[Archdeacon]] of metropolitans Metropolitans [[Gregorios of Chalcedon]] and [[Joachim of Ephesus]], before becoming a deacon in the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate]] in 1920. He then served in various positions on the Board of the Halki School, including secretary, codewriter, subsecretary, and archsecretary before being [[ordination|ordained ]] a [[presbyter]] and [[archimandrite]] on [[January 1 January ]], 1928. He later became [[Metropolitan of Philadelphia]] in February of 1930 before ascending to the Patriarchal throne in 1946.

before=?|title=Metropolitan of Philadelphia|years=1930-1946|after=?}}{{succession|before=[[BenjaminI of Constantinople|Benjamin I]]|

after=[[AthenagorasI (Spyrou) of Constantinople|Athenagoras I]]}}

==SourcesSource== *[http://www.ec-patr.gr/list/index.php?lang=en&id=325 Ecumenical Patriarchate]

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