The Holy Metropolis of Piraeus announced that the Metropolitan of Elefsina, Hierotheos (Petrakis), died today, March 1, at the age of 89.
The late Metropolitan was born in 1930 in Cairo, Egypt. He was elected bishop of Elefsina in 1977 and was recently promoted to a metropolitan.
He studied at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens and since 1999 he served as a preacher of the Metropolis of Piraeus.
The tabernacle of the metropolitan will lie in state at the Holy Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Piraeus, where a night divine liturgy will be hold on Friday, March 1, and Matins and a divine liturgy on Saturday morning.
Metropolitan Alexandros of Nigeria, representative of Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and All Africa will sing the funeral mass on March 2, at 11:00 at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Piraeus.