Life
Born in Istanbul, he was educated at the theological school in Chalki, and at the universities of Leipzig, Munich, and Berlin. He became a professor at Chalce in 1861. In 1867 he went to head the Patriarchal School in Constantinople, leaving in 1875 to attend the Old Catholic conference in Bonn, during which he was appointed metropolitan of Serrae in Macedonia. In 1877 he transferred to Nicomedia.
In 1877, he participated in a commission dealing with plundered monasteries in Moldavia and Wallachia.
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