His Grace Fotios Bishop of Malawi (Hatziantoniou) was born in Nicaea Attica in 1954. After completing his schooling he graduate from the Philosophical and Theological Academy of the University of Athens.
He was ordained Deacon on 22/7/1980 and Priest – Archimandrite on 9/11 of the same year, by the late Metropolitan Synesios of Kassandreia.
In 2002 he came to know the Missionary work of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, offering his services at the Metropolises of Cameroon and Irinopolis.
From 2010 to 2016 he served as Chancellor of the Holy Metropolis of Irinopolis. In October 2016 he was invited by His Beatitude Theodoros II Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa to Alexandria, and appointed as Dean and Spiritual Father of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St Savvas.
On 26th November the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate elected him as the first Bishop of the newly-established Diocese of Malawi, and was ordained by His Beatitude at the Holy Monastery of the Venerable Savvas of Alexandria on 23rd December 2018.
See: Βlantyre Malawi
Adress: Orthodox Bishopric of Malawi,
P.O. Box 1854, Blantyre, Malawi, Central Africa
Mob. +265 984812823 / +306979806293
E-mail: bishopmalawi@gmail.com
