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Athenagoras (Aneste) of Mexico

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Life
[[Image:MetropolitanAthenagorus.jpg|thumb|right|Abp. Athenagoras (Aneste) of Mexico]]
His Eminence Metropolitan Archbishop '''Athenagoras (Aneste) of Mexico''' is the ruling hierarch of the [[Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Venezuela, and the Caribbean Islands]] under the [[jurisdiction]] of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
==Life==
Born on [[September 17]], 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, George Angelo Aneste Anastasiadis received his elementary and high school education in Chicago before beginning his theological education at [[Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Hellenic College/Holy Cross Seminary]] in Brookline, Massachusetts. Following his first year of studies, he transferred to the Theological School of the University of Athens, Greece in 1959 where he received his Masters of Theology Degree in 1965. Fr. Athenagoras also pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor Campus) where in 1973 he received a Masters Degree in Russian Literature.
George was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] on [[December 19]], 1965 at the Annunciation Cathedral of Chicago, receiving the ecclesiastical name, Athenagoras. In 1966, Dn. Athenagoras was appointed deacon and secretary to His Grace Bishop [[Timotheos (Haloftis) of Rodostolon]], in Toronto, Ontario Canada. On [[July 21]], 1967, he was ordained a [[priest]] at the [[parish]] of St. George in Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Following his ordination to the priesthood Fr. Athenagoras served a number of [[parish]]es including Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, London Ontario Canada from 1967 to 1970, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1970 to 1963, St. Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church, Niles, Illinois from 1976 to 1978, and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Flushing, New York from 1979 to 1982.
In 1996, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew requested Bishop Athenagoras to pursue the establishment in Hong Kong of a new [[Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia|Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hong Kong and All of South East Asia]] on behalf of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. After establishing the new Metropolitan Archdiocese, in November 1996 Bp. Athenagoras was directed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to officially [[enthronement|enthrone]] the newly elected Metropolitan [[Nikitas (Lulias) of Dardanellia|Nikitas]] as the first Metropolitan of the new Metropolis.
On [[December 2]], 1996, Bp. Athenagoras was elected unanimously by the Holy and Great Synod of Constantinople to the newly established Metropolitan Archdiocese of Central America and the Caribbean. He was enthroned on [[January 25]], 1997. The area of jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Archdiocese includes the Countries of Mexico (where His Eminence resides), Venezuela, Colombia, all the Countries of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador) and the Islands of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
==Sources==
==External links==
*[http://www.orthodoxiamexico.org/ Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico]
*[http://www.gocanada.org/clergyhistory/aneste.htm His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras (Aneste) of Panama]
*[http://timelines.ws/days/01_21.HTML Today in History - January 21, 2004]
[[Category:Bishops]]
[[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]]
[[Category:University of Athens Theology School Graduates]]
[[Category:Orthodoxy in Central America]]
[[Category:Dioceses]]
[[Category:Ecumenical Patriarchate Dioceses|Central America]]

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