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'''Alexander (Demoglou)''' ({{lang-el|Αλέξανδρος Δήμογλου}}; 1876 - 1942) was the first Greek [[bishop]] to head the ethnic Greek Orthodox [[parish]]es in North America. He was appointed by the [[Metropolitan]] of Athens [[Meletius IV (Metaxakis) of Constantinople|Meletius (Metaxakis)]] during the chaotic period for the Orthodox Church of the Russian Civil and the Greek-Turkish Wars following World War I.

The early part of He was born in 1876 in Chalcedon. He studied at the life [[Theological School of Abp. Alexander is largely unknownHalki]], where he graduated in 1902.  He was ordained deacon in 1895 and priest in 1902, he served in the [[Auxiliary bishop|auxiliary Holy Metropolises Ephesus, Andrianoupoleos, Xanthi, Thessaloniki and Athens on 21 Octomber 1917 was elected titular Bishop]] of Rodostolou when, on . In 1918 he participated Ecclesiastical Mission in the then Metropolitan Meletios (Metaxakis) of Athens went to America and since [[October 29]], 1918, he was named the synodical vicar of the proto-[[archdiocese]], formed by Metr. Meletius of Athens, of all Greek Orthodox faithful in North and South America, with Metr. Meletius as its head as [[Exarch]] of America. After the [[w:History_of_modern_Greece|royalists]] returned to power in Greece, Metr. Meletius was [[deposition|deposed]], but on [[November 27]], 1921 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople in a Turkey that was also at the time [[w: Dissolution_of_the_Ottoman_EmpireDissolution of the Ottoman Empire|deposing]] the government of the [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman Sultan]]. Meletius then returned to the United States where he presided over a formal organization of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America]] on [[May 11]], 1922. As one of his first official decrees as [[patriarch]], Meletius appointed Bp. Alexander the [[Titular bishop|titular Bishop]] of Rodostolou as his Patriarchal Exarch in America.