Metropolitan Christoforos of Australia

He was ordained priest on 23 April 1910, raised to the rank of archimandrite and then on 12 December titular bishop consecrated of Stauropolis.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople established the Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand in 1924 and appointed Christophoros as hierarch.

He was confronted by Archimandrite Irenaios Kasimatis, a priest who ignored the metropolitan and wrote inflammatory articles in the local Greek press.

Factional rivalry and bitterness prevented Knitis from achieving much, and divisions in the church made his position untenable.

He was granted the title of Metropolitan of Bizye (East Thrace) and spent most of his remaining life back in Samos, where he died on 7 August 1959.