Dimitri Salachas

Dimitri Salachas
Apostolic Exarch of Greece
Church Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
Appointed April 23, 2008
Term ended February 2, 2016
Predecessor Anargyros Printezis
Successor Manuel Nin, O.S.B.
Orders
Ordination Feb 9, 1964 (Priest)
Consecration May 24, 2008 (Bishop)
by Mihai Frățilă
Personal details
Born June 7, 1939
Athens, Greece

Dimitri (Dimitrios) Salachas (born in 1939 in Athens, Greece) was the Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church.[1]

Life

Salachas was born in June 7, 1939 at Athens in Greece and he was ordained priest in 1964.

He is a well-known Greek scholar in Canon Law. He has done his doctoral research in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Laws and civil laws. He has taught Canon Law (both Latin and Oriental) in Pontifical Urbaniana University, Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum and Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

He is consultor 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 Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. He is the member of the International Society of Oriental Canon Law.

On 23 April 2008 was appointed Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church and titular bishop. He was ordained bishop on 24 May 2008. In 2008 he was appointed titular bishop of Carcabia, and on 14 May 2012 he was promoted to the titular see of Gratianopolis.

Works

See also

References

  1. "Bishop Dimitrios Salachas". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.

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