Damaskinos of Athens

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His Beatitude Damaskinos
Archbishop of Athens
Archbishop Damaskinos, 1945
Regent of Greece
In office 31 December 1944 – 27 September 1946
Prime Minister	Georgios Papandreou Nikolaos Plastiras Petros Voulgaris Himself Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Themistoklis Sofoulis Panagiotis Poulitsas Konstantinos Tsaldaris
Preceded by	George II (as King of the Hellenes)
Succeeded by	George II (as King of the Hellenes)
Prime Minister of Greece
In office 17 October 1945 – 1 November 1945
Monarch	George II
Regent	Himself
Preceded by	Petros Voulgaris
Succeeded by	Panagiotis Kanellopoulos
Archbishop of Athens
Installed	2 July 1941
Term ended	20 May 1949
Predecessor	Chrysanthus
Successor	Spyridon
Personal details
Born	Dimitrios Papandreou (Δημήτριος Παπανδρέου) (1891-03-03)3 March 1891 Dorvitsa, Kingdom of Greece
Died	20 May 1949(1949-05-20) (aged 58) Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Denomination	Greek Orthodox

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Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou (Greek: Αρχιεπίσκοπος Δαμασκηνός Παπανδρέου), born Dimitrios Papandreou (Greek: Δημήτριος Παπανδρέου; 3 March 1891 – 20 May 1949) was the archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 1941 until his death in 1949. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King George II to Greece in 1946. His rule was between the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II and the Greek Civil War.