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==Life==
Little is known of the early life of Patr. Hierotheus. He was born after the mid-eighteenth century in Larissa in Thessaly and was the ruling [[bishop]] in a number of [[see]]s before he became [[Patriarch]] of Alexandria. According to an inscription in the Church of St. Nicholas in Almyros, he was the bishop of Zitounio in 1802. In 1819, he was the Metropolitan of Paronaxia, and between 1820 and 1824 he was the Metropolitan of NicaeaNicea.
Hierotheus was elected [[patriarch]], in October 1825, possibly on October 14, after Patr. [[Theophilus II (Pankostas) of Alexandria|Theophilus II]] was [[deposition|deposed]] by the Patriarchate of Constantinople for abandoning his [[see]]. Theophilus had remained at his birth place, Patmos, from 1818 to 1825. Patriarch Chrysanthus of Constantinople with Patriarch [[Polycarp I of Jerusalem|Polycarp]] of Jerusalem had acted to have the see occupied under pressure from the [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman]] government during the Greek war of independence.
{{succession|
before=Gabriel|
title=Metropolitan of NicaeaNicea|
years=1820-1825|
after=?}}
[[Category: Bishops of Zitounio]]
[[Category: Bishops of Paronaxia]]
[[Category: Bishops of NicaeaNicea]]
[[Category:19th-century bishops]]
[[Category: Patriarchs of Alexandria]]
