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