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His Eminence Archbishop '''Gregorios, was born in the present-day Turkish-occupied village (Theocharous) of Marathovounos in Thyateira and Great Britain''' is the district current [[hierarch]] of Famagusta, Cyprus, on 28th October 1928. He was the ninth and last child of the family [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the builder Theocharis Thyateira and his wife Maria Hadjitofi. At the age of three he was orphaned through his father's deathGreat Britain]].

==Life==He was born in the present-day Turkish-occupied village of Marathovounos in the district of Famagusta, Cyprus, on [[October 28|28 October]] 1928. He was the ninth and last child of the family of the builder Theocharis and his wife Maria Hadjitofi. At the age of three he was orphaned through his father's death. After completing his primary education at the village school, the eleven-year-old Gregorios became an apprentice as a shoemaker in his brother-in-law Andreas Orthodoxou's shop, where he worked for the next eight years. At the age of 20 he decided to attend a secondary school; he enrolled in 1949 at the Higher Commercial School of the town of Lefkoniko which, at that time, had only five classes. He was accepted in the second-year class.

At the age of twenty In 1951 he decided transferred to attend the famous Pan-Cyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, having become a secondary school for which [[monk|rasophore]], and he enrolled was later [[ordain]]ed [[deacon]] on the Sunday of [[Pentecost]], 1953, at the Church of St. Sawa in Nicosia by the late [[Archbishop]] Makarios the Third.He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1949 1954 and went to Athens to study at the Higher Commercial Theological School of the town University. Before receiving his university degree in February 1959, he was appointed to the Church of Lefkoniko which, All Saints in London. He arrived there and started his duties at that time, had only five classesthe Church of the Holy Saints in Camden Town in April 1959. He was accepted in ordained [[presbyter]] by the late Archbishop of Thyateira, Athenagoras Kawadas, on the [[April 26|26th]] of the second-year classsame month.

In 1951 1964 he transferred to was appointed Chancellor of the famous Pan-Cyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, having become a rasopher, and Archdiocese of Thyateira. On [[December 12|12 December]] 1970 he was later ordained deacon on consecrated ''Bishop of Tropaiou'' by the Sunday blessed former Archbishop of PentecostThyateira, Athenagoras Kokkinakis, 1953 at the Cathedral of St Sophia. From the first day of his ordainance he undertook to organize and administer the St Mary's Cathedral and the Church of St. Sawa Barnabas the Apostle in Nicosia by the late Archbishop Makarios the ThirdWood Green, North London.

He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1954 and went to Athens to study at On [[April 16|16 April]] 1988 he was unanimously elected by the Theological School Sacred Synod of the University. Before receiving his university degree in February 1959, he was appointed to the Church Ecumenical Patriarchate as ''Archbishop of All Saints in London, arriving there Thyateira and Great Britain'' and starting his duties enthronement took place at the Church Cathedral of the Holy Saints Sophia in Camden Town in April 1959. He was ordained presbyter by the late Archbishop of Thyateira, Athenagoras Kawadas, on the 26th of the same monthWest London.

In 1964 he was appointed Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Thyateira==External link==*[http://orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/great_britain/current. On 12th December 1970 he was consecrated Bishop of Tropaiou by the blessed former Archbishop of Thyateira Athenagoras Kokkinakis htm#gregorios_arch_thyateira Listing at the Cathedral of St Sophia. From the first day of his ordainance he undertook to organize and administer the St Mary's Cathedral and the Church of St. Barnabas the Apostle in Wood Green, North London.Orthodox Research Institute]