His Eminence Gabriel Metropolitan of Leontopolis was born in Athens in 1957. He holds a degree from the Theological faculty of the University of Athens. He was ordained Deacon in 1981 and Priest in 1984, serving in Athens, Serres and in the Financial Services of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece. Posted to the ancient Patriarchate by the late Patriarch Parthenios III in 1990, he served as Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe and Patriarchal Vicar in Odessa. In June 2005 he was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria and on 1st November 2006, he was elected as Bishop of Mareotis, ordained by His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II on 4th November 2006 in the Holy Church of St Savvas the Sanctified in Alexandria.
On 21st November 2012, by proposal of His Beatitude, he was unanimously elected by the Holy Synod as Metroplitan of Leontopolis and Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria.
The Holy Archdiocese of Leontopolis has in its jurisdiction the areas of Ismailia, Suez and Zagzik in Egypt.
See: Ismailia – Egypt
Adress:
P.O.Box 2006, Alexandria, Egypt
Mobile: +2-01225316840, +30 6972605467
