Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago,
secular name
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Constantinos Symeonides (; born May 23, 1978) is the
Metropolitan of Chicago since 2018.
Biography
Nathanael was born in 1978 in Thessaloniki to Irene and Vasilios Symeonides. In 2003 he graduated from Hellenic College and became a deacon, and in 2010 he was ordained as a priest. In 2016 he served as the director of the Office of Inter-Orthodox for the Interfaith Relations at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in collaboration with the
Council on Foreign Relations
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. He was elected Metropolitan of Chicago in February 7, 2018, and was ordained a bishop on March 17, 2018 and enthroned March 24, 2018.
As bishop, Nathanael has called for more active engagement of the church with the youth.
On September 7, 2024, two days before the one year anniversary of the opening of
Chicago's first casino, Nathanael denounced legalized gambling, stating it "disrupts our brain,
nddegrades our dignity".
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
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