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Metropolitan Ioannis Lagadas lost the battle with Koronaios. This is the first death of a Metropolitan from the virus.
According to orthodoxia.info, the Metropolitan died of a coronavirus, since he had fallen ill in the previous days.
Who was Metropolitan John?
Ioannis (Tassias) was born in Thessaloniki in 1958. He graduated from the Ecclesiastical Pedagogical Academy in 1979 and from the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology at the University of Thessaloniki in 1982.
That same year he was ordained a deacon in the Holy Diocese of Thessalonica and assumed the direction of the Office of Youth. In 1983 he was ordained an elder and served in the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius until 1994. He was then placed in the church of the patron Saint Demetrius as a priest. Since 1983 he served as Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Agia Theodora of Thessaloniki, since 1994 he served as Protosyggelos of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki. At that time he led the claim of the Rotunda in Thessaloniki by the Church as a place of worship and now the Rotunda is granted by the Ministry of Culture for certain functions each year.
He was elected on May 10, 2010 by the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece as Metropolitan of Lagada. He was ordained bishop on May 16, 2010 by the Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos II in the church of Agios Dimitrios, patron of Thessalonica.
He is the author of numerous articles and theological studies. He has participated in Theological Conferences. He has been a professor at the Catechetical Centers and at the Graduate School of the Holy Metropolis of Thessaloniki. For about 20 years he hosted radio and television programs. He has also taught at the Higher Ecclesiastical School of Thessaloniki.
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