Dorotheus of Athens

On 18 December 1922 he was ordained a priest by Procopius, the Metropolitan Bishop of Hydra and Spetses.

Dorotheus went to London to meet with Giorgos Seferis, the poet-diplomat then serving as Greek ambassador to the United Kingdom, on 13 June 1957.

He was admitted to a hospital on 22 June, at which point he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

[1] He died in a Stockholm clinic on 26 July 1957; his death was announced in Athens by telegram.

Konstantinos Karamanlis, then Prime Minister of Greece, responded to the new of Dorotheus's death by saying "The Church has prematurely lost a wise, humble and hardworking hierarch, one whom it sorely needed in these difficult times for the nation.