Meletius Metaxakis

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Meletius Metaxakis
Meletius as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1923) Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria In office 1926–1935 Predecessor Photius Successor Nicholas V Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople In office 8 December 1921 – 20 September 1923 Predecessor Germanus V Successor Gregory VII Archbishop of Athens and All Greece In office 1918–1920 Predecessor Theocletus I Successor Theocletus I
Personal details
Born	Emmanuel Metaxakis 21 September 1871 Parsas, Ierapetra, Ottoman Crete
Died	28 July 1935(1935-07-28) (aged 63) Alexandria,[1] Kingdom of Egypt

Meletius (Greek: Μελέτιος; secular name Emmanuel Metaxakis, Ἐμμανουήλ Μεταξάκης; 21 September 1871 – 28 July 1935), was primate of the Church of Greece from 1918 to 1920 as Meletius III, after which he was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Meletius IV from 1921 to 1923 and Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as Meletius II from 1926 to 1935.^[2] He is the only man in the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church to serve successively as the senior bishop of three autocephalous churches.