Metropolitan Timotheos of Australia

He was born as Tilemachos Evangelinidis (Τηλέμαχος Ευαγγελινίδης) in the village of Polichnitos, on the island of Lesbos (then still part of the Ottoman Empire), on 23 April 1880.

In 1921 and for the next ten years, he served as apokrisiarios of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Romanian Orthodox Church.

The position had officially remained vacant since 1928, when his predecessor Metropolitan Christoforos Knitis had been recalled to Greece.

[2] On Sunday 10 November 1935, Timotheos opened and dedicated a Greek Orthodox church in Innisfail, Queensland.

In June 1949, he was elected Archbishop of North and South America but was unable to assume the post due to a cardiac arrest.

Archimandrite Timothy (Evangelinidis) in Warsaw as part of a delegation of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who arrived to proclaim the autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church. 1925