His Eminence Daniel, Metropolitan of Accra, Most Honorable and Exarch of West Africa, was born in Zakynthos, Greece. He holds a Degree from the Technical Vocational School of Zakynthos, Department of Economics and Management, Department of Hotel Βusinesses (1997). After his school education, he attended courses at the School of Accountants, at the Higher Educational Institution of Messolonghi town (1998). After, he studied at the Higher Ecclesiastical School in Ioannina town (2004) and then at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Theology, from where he received the Degree in Pastoral and Social Theology (2010). He holds a Certificate of Education in the subject “Addictions Counseling”, from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2011), also a Master Degree in Social Theology and Christian Culture (Th.M.), in the Faculty of Humanities from the Hellenic Open University (2023).
He was tonsured as a Monk at the Holy Strofadon and St Dionysios of Zakynthos Monastery, was ordained Deacon on 25/12/1997 and Priest on 17/09/2006 by the Metropolitan of Zakynthos. He served as Preacher in the Metropolis of Zakynthos (2011) and as Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Most Holy Theotokos “Spiliotissa” (2009).
He served as a Missionary in the Holy Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa in its Provinces of Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Malawi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and as Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Zambia and Malawi (2016).
He was seconded at the instigation of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa to the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt. Called to See of the Patriarchate in Alexandria, he served as Parish Priest of the Holy Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos in Alexandria (2016) and from 18/1/2017 as Chief Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod.
Proposed by His Beatitude and by canonical votes of the Holy Synod, he was elected on November 26, 2018 as Metropolitan of Aksum in Ethiopia. He was ordained Bishop by His Beatitude, at the Holy Monastery of Saint Savva of Alexandria, on December 5, 2018 and enthroned by His Beatitude on March 2, 2019 at the Cathedral of Saint Frumentios, Addis Ababa.
On February 15, 2024, he was elected as Metropolitan-Archbishop of Accra in Ghana. His enthroned took place on April 21, 2024 at the Holy Transfiguration of Christ Cathedral in Accra.
The Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Accra in Ghana, under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa in Egypt, includes in its spiritual jurisdiction the countries of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali.
HOLY ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF ACCRA
V271 FLOWER STR, ABEKA LAPAZ, ACCRA, GHANA
(P.O. BOX LG274, LEGON, ACCRA, GHANA)
Tel. +233 538400613, +233 555490232
WEB SITE: www.orthodoxghana.org
EMAIL: archbishop@orthodoxghana.org
FACEBOOK: @ieramitropoliaccras
