Metropolitan Nikitas elected as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain

On June 12, 2019, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected his eminence Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese), to succeed Bishop Gregorios, who announced last month that he wanted to retire.Metropolitan Nikitas was born in 1955 in Tampa, Florida. After high school, he studied at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, where he received his