Chrysostom Tsiter

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Chrysostomos Tsiter ( Greek Χρυσόστομος Τσίτερ ; born November 11, 1903 in Triglia (Asia Minor) ; † April 2, 1995 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary and Central Europe .

Life

Chrysostom Tsiter, whose real name was Iraklis, was Greek Ηρακλomς and was nephew of the metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna on his mother's side . After attending the Chalki Theological College and the University of Athens , from which he graduated in 1924, he worked until 1936 as a religion teacher in Athens and Paiania Attiki ("Greek School", 1924–1926). In 1936 he was ordained a priest and was sent to Vienna as pastor of the Greek Orthodox community to the Holy Trinity. In addition to his priestly activity, he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and obtained his doctorate in philosophy there in 1939. At the same time he worked as a lecturer for modern Greek at the University of Vienna.

On November 6, 1955, he was named titular bishop of Thermae in Vienna by Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira and Great Britain and the Bishops Meletios of Regios, who later became the Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of France, and James of Melite, who later became the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America consecrated. From then on he worked as auxiliary bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, based in Vienna. In 1963 the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople founded the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Austria , and installed Chrysostomos Tsiter as its first metropolitan. He supported and advised the Austrian Federal Government in drawing up the Orthodox Law passed in 1967, which regulated the external legal relationships of the Greek-Oriental Church in Austria and gave the Metropolis legal personality from Austria .

Chrysostomos Tsiter also administered the vacant Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany from June 1968 to November 1969 . On November 5, 1991, he resigned from the management of the Metropolis of Austria for health reasons and died in Vienna on April 2, 1995.

literature

Kontopulu, Eryphilē: Diaphora. sēmeiōseis tu Ēraklē A. Tsiter. Kōnstantinupolē - Triglia - Smyrnē, Xanthē 2006. ISBN 9608880149 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog entry for the dissertation in the union catalog of Austrian university publications of the OBVSG . Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Short biography in Greek . Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Biographical notes from the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna . Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  4. ^ Biographical entry on the website of the Metropolis of Austria . Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  5. ^ Catalog entry of the University Library Vienna . Retrieved March 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Tsiter, Chrysostom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Τσίτερ, Χρυσόστομος; Iraklis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek clergyman, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Triglia , Bithynia
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1995
Place of death Vienna