[1] He was educated at the King's School, Rochester, before gaining a degree in history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

[2] He was ordained in 1999, and was for three years a curate in the parish of St Mark, Portsea, an inner-city area of Portsmouth.

[3] He was the vicar of St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London, from 2007 to 2013,[3] and canon treasurer of Canterbury Cathedral from 2013.

[5] Papadopulos is the editor of God's Transforming Work (SPCK, 2011), an assessment of the development of Common Worship in its first 10 years, to which he contributed an appreciation of the ministry of Bishop David Stancliffe.

[6] He was elected to the executive of the Association of English Cathedrals in 2022,[7] and was commissioned as a deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire in January 2024.