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His Eminence the Most Reverend '''Procopius I (Georgiadis) of Athens''' was the Metropolitan of Athens of the [[Church of Greece]] from 1874 to 1889. 

==Life==
Little is known of his life or his episcopate. Procopius I was born Procopius Georgiadis, in 1813, in town of Aigio in Achaea in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. 

Having entered the [[Holy Orders]], Procopius advanced into the episcopate and,  in 1852, became Metropolitan of Messenia in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. On [[May 27]], 1874, he was [[enthronement|enthroned]] Metropolitan of Athens and all Greece.

On [[December 18]], 1878, at a sitting of the [[Holy Synod]] as a Council of Athens presided over by Metr. Procopius, [[Apostolos Makrakis]], a leader of the "awakening movement" in post-revolutionary Greece who preached against Western "enlightenment" including Freemasonry, was condemned on the pretext of his support of the theory of the triple constitution of humanity.  

Metr. Procopius I reposed on [[January 30]], 1889.

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==Source==
*[http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Procopius_I  Phantis: Procopius I]

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[[Category: Archbishops of Athens]]
[[Category:19th-century bishops]]