Dimitri Salachas
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Bishop Dimitri (Dimitrios) Salachas (titular bishop of Carcabia) is current Apostolic Exarch of the Byzantine Rite Catholics in Greece. He is a well known Greek scholar in Canon Law. He was born in 1939 at Athens in Greece. He has done his doctoral research in Byzentine Ecclesiastical Laws and civil laws. He taught Canon Law (both Latin and Oriental) in Pontifical Urbaniana University, Pontifical Gregorian University, Angelicum and Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. He is cosultor of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and of the Pontifical Councils for the Interpretation of the Legislative Texts and for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians. As an expert in comparative Ecclesiastical Laws Bishop Salachas is member of the Episcopal Conference of Greece. He is the member of the of the International Commission for the official Theological Dialogue between Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches. He is the member of the International Society of Oriental Canon Law.
Bishop Salachas' major works are: L'iniziazione cristiana nei Codici orientale e latino (1992); Istituzioni di diritto canonico delle Chiese cattoliche orientali (1993); Il sacramento del matrimonio nel Nuovo Diritto canonico delle Chiese orientali (1994); Il Diritto canonico delle Chiese orientali nel primo millenio (1997); Teologia e disciplina dei sacramenti nei codici latino e orientale (1999).
Salachas was ordained priest in 1964 and on the 23 April 2008 has been appointed Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church and titular bishop of Carcabia and was ordained bishop on 24th May 2008.
