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His
Eminence Metropolitan Hieronymos of Rodopolis
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Today,
November 17, 2005, His Eminence Hieronymos (Constantinidis) of Rodopolis
died in Constantinople. For 54 years, he was a hierarch of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate, and for very many years a member of the permanent Holy Synod
of the Patriarchate. Born in 1912 in Constantinople, His Eminence Hieronymos
was a graduate of the Halki Institute of Theology in 1939. He was ordained
a deacon in 1937 and a priest in 1942. In 1951, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical
Patriarchate elected him as Bishop of Tralles, auxiliary bishop of Patriarch
Athenagoras. In 1954, he was promoted to Metropolitan of Rodopolis. He was
the president and member of several synodal commissions.
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