1931
Birth in Katafygion, Kozani, Greece
1931
1950
Enrollment in theology studies in Thessaloniki
1954
Graduation at the University of Athens
1954
1954
Study training in Bose, Switzerland
1955
Departure for America and master's studies at Harvard
1955
1956
M.T.S degree at Harvard
1957
Two-year military service in Greece
1957
1959
Research at Dumbarton Oaks (1960-64)
1965
Defense of the doctorate on the unity of the Church
1965
1966-67
Assistant-professor at the University of Athens, Department of Church History
1966
First post-doctoral publication "Eucharistic Vision of the World"
1966
1967
Departure to Geneva and work for WCC
1970
Professor in Edinburgh
1970
1973
Professor in Glasgow
1976
Study "Hellenism and Christianity"
1976
1977
The study "From Mask to Personhood" is published in Greek
1981
Meeting with Elder Sophrony in Essex
1981
1981
The book "L'etre ecclésial" is published in French
1983
Five lectures at the Gulandri-Horn Foundation
1983
1984
Professor in Thessaloniki
1984
Professor at the King's College in London
1984
1984
Lectures at the Gregorianum
1985
The book Being as Communion is published
1985
1986
Ordination as a Metropolitan in Constantinople
1989
Lectures on ecology
1989
1991
Honorary Doctor of the University of Belgrade
1993
Elected member of the Academy of Athens
1993
1994
Publishes study "Eucharist and the Kingdom of God"
1997
Bioethical responses
1997
2000
Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Greece
2002
President of the Academy of Athens
2002
2003
Liturgy in Pergamum
2006
Published the book "Communion and Otherness"
2006
2016
Holy and Great Council in Crete
2023
Repose in Athens, February 2
His book "Remembering the Future" is being published posthumously.
2023