Crete, April 9, 2025
Photo: romfea.gr
Another hierarch from the Greek Orthodox world reposed in the Lord yesterday, April 8.
Metropolitan Damaskinos of Kydonia and Apokoronou, Hypertimos, and Exarch of the Cretan and Myrtoo Sea had been facing serious health issues recently, “fighting a brave and humble daily battle against his illness,” reports Romfea.
The hierarch from Crete, which is under the Patriarchate of Constantinople, is the fourth Greek hierarch to repose in the past month. Metropolitans Anthimos, the retired hierarch of Thessaloniki, and Titus, the retired hierarch of Paramythia, both reposed in the Lord on March 14, and Metropolitan Andreas of Konitsa reposed over this past weekend on Saturday, April 5.
The newly reposed Met. Damaskinos was 66 years old. He served as a hierarch for the past 19 years of his life.
May Met. Damaskinos’ memory be eternal!
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The Metropolitan was born in Chania, Crete in 1958.
After his general education, he attended the Ecclesiastical School of Crete and the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki, subsequently completing a postgraduate program in the Department of Worship and Art, obtaining a Master’s Degree.
In 1976 he was tonsured a monk, in 1981 he was ordained a deacon, and the following year a priest.
In 2001, he was appointed by chancellor of the Metropolitan of Kydonia.
On November 7, 2006, he was unanimously elected by the Holy Synod of Crete as the next Metropolitan of Kydonia and Apokoronou.
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