Dimitri Salachas


Dimitri Salachas was the Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church.

Life

Salachas was born in June 7, 1939 at Athens in Greece and he was ordained priest in 1964.
He is a well-known Greek scholar in Canon Law. He has done his doctoral research in Byzantine Ecclesiastical Laws and civil laws. He has taught Canon Law in Pontifical Urbaniana University, Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum and Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
He is consultor of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and of the Pontifical Councils for the Interpretation of the Legislative Texts and for the Promotion of the Unity of Christians. As an expert in comparative Ecclesiastical Laws, Bishop Salachas is member of the Episcopal Conference of Greece. He is the member of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. He is the member of the International Society of Oriental Canon Law.
On 23 April 2008 was appointed Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church and titular bishop. He was ordained bishop on 24 May 2008. In 2008 he was appointed titular bishop of Carcabia, and on 14 May 2012 he was promoted to the titular see of Gratianopolis.

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