Archbishop Ezekiel of Australia

Ezekiel Tsoukalas
The Most Reverend; Ezekiel Tsoukalas
	Archbishop of Australia
Installed	1959
Term ended	1974
Predecessor	Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos
Successor	Stylianos Harkianakis
Personal details
Birth name	Ezekiel Tsoukalas
Born	13 May 1913; Patras, Greece
Died	1 July 1987 (aged 74); Athens, Greece

Ezekiel Tsoukalas (Greek: Ιεζεκιήλ Τσουκαλάς; 13 May 1913 – 1 July 1987) was a Greek priest and the first Archbishop of Australia in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.

Tsoukalas was an assistant bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America from 1950 to 1959. He had served as a bishop in Boston and Chicago. He had been Assistant Director of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1943 and elevated to director in 1949.[1]

Archbishop of Australia

Ezekiel Tsoukalas of Nazianzos was elected the fourth Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand in February 1959. He replaced Metropolitan Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos, the third metropolitan who was killed in a car crash in 1958. On 1 September 1959 the Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand was elevated to an archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel was elevated to archbishop.[2] In 1970 the Metropolis of New Zealand was created, so Archbishop Ezekiel became the Archbishop of Australia.

In August 1974 the Ecumenical Patriarchate promoted Archbishop Ezekiel to the Metropolis of Pisidia where he remained until 1987. He died in Athens in July 1987.

On 3 February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected Metropolitan of Miletoupolis Stylianos Harkianakis, lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia.

References

Tamis, A. (2005). The Greeks in Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780521547437. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
"Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia — History". greekorthodox.org.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.

Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by Bishop Athenagoras	Bishop of Boston 1950–1954	Succeeded by Bishop Athenagoras
Preceded by Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos	Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand 1959	Succeeded by -
Preceded by -	Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand 1959–1970	Succeeded by -
Preceded by -	Archbishop of Australia 1970–1974	Succeeded by Archbishop Stylianos

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[google-1] Tamis, A. (2005). The Greeks in Australia. Cambridge University Press. p. 112. ISBN 9780521547437. Retrieved 13 October 2014.

[greekorthodox-2] "Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia — History". greekorthodox.org.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.