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The Metropolitan of Kinshasa, Reverend and Exarch of the whole of the Equator, the venerable Nikiforos (according to George Constantinou) was born in Thessaloniki in 1949.
After graduating from the Practical High School in Thessaloniki, he studied at the Church Tutoring Center in Thessaloniki (1967-1969).
In 1975 he graduated from the Theological Faculty of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, while in 1999 he received his doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the same University.
In 1971 he was tonsured a monk in the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegian Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Tzagarolon, Chania. He was ordained a deacon on August 22nd of the same year.
In 1977 he retired to Mount Athos, was appointed professor at the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy and afterwards as assistant scholar, and in 1988 at the proposal of the Holy Community of Mount Athos by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Scholars.
In 1997 he left the school of Athonias and at the invitation of the Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, he took over the organization of the first ecclesiastical lyceum in Argyrokastro.
Since 2006 he has worked in the administration of the Orthodox University of the Congo “Agios Athanasios the Athonite”, where he also taught.
He wrote many scientific studies and participated in various conferences in Greece and abroad.
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