Panteleimon Kotokos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Panteleimon Kotokos

Greek bishop

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1890

Place of Birth: Korçë, Korçë County, Albania

Date of Death: 24-May-1969

Profession: minister

Nationality: Greece, Albania

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Panteleimon Kotokos

  • Panteleimon of Gjirokastër (Greek: ?a?te?e?µ?? ????????st???, born Christos Kotokos, Greek: ???st?? ??t????, Albanian: Kristo Kotoko; 1890–1969) was a bishop of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania.
  • He was the metropolitan bishop of Gjirokastër (1937–1941) and a member of the exiled Northern Epirus lobby after the end of World War II.Panteleimon Kotokos was born in Korçë, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day southern Albania) (Northern Epirus) in 1860.
  • After he finished middle level education in his home place he was accepted in the Theological School of Halki, in Istanbul (Constantinople).
  • For several years he worked as a high school theology teacher.
  • He also acquired a degree in law science at the University of Athens.After an agreement with the Albanian authorities, in 1937, the Ecumenical Patriarchate chose a number of highly educated religious personalities for key position in the recently declared as autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania.
  • Among them were Panteleimon Kotokos as metropolitan of Gjirokastër and Eulogios Kourilas, as metropolitan of Korçë.
  • When the communist regime of Enver Hoxha came to power in Albania (1945), he was declared 'enemy of the state' and was expelled from the country.
  • He fled to Greece where together with Eulohios Kourilas became the heads of the Northern Epirus Central Committee.
  • On November 18, 1945, he managed to organize a massive demonstration in Athens, where 150,000 people participated.
  • The following years he became active as a member of the exiled Northern Epirus lobby propagating discrimination of the Greek minority by the Communist regime of Albania.

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