Antonios Antonopoulos [SEP] place of death
Antonios Antonopoulos
Antonios Antonopoulos (Greek: Αντώνιος Αντωνόπουλος) (1805–1887) was a Greek politician of Achaia and a mayor of Patras.
He was born in Patras sixteen years before the Greek Revolution. He was elected mayor of Patras in 1847 and the government was created. He was an anti-monarchist and deposed himself in the same day, staying in the mayoral chair for one day. In that way, in the place where Konstantinos Skourletis succeeded.
Antanopoulos was elected in that year to the municipal council;
of monasteries that went to Egypt to be ordained as bishops so that the church would have its own Holy Synod. He was ordained as Bishop Antonios of Hamasien-Asmara on 19 June 1994 in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Cairo by Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Following the death of Abune Yacob in 2003, he was elected Patriarch in popular elections which were unanimously endorsed by the Holy Synod of the church. His ordination and enthronement as Patriarch took place on 23 April 2004 in Asmara