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On 14 July, Pope Francis appointed Fr Theodoros Kodidis Archbishop of Athens and Apostolic Administrator of Rhodes. Fr Theodoros is a member of the EOF Province (French-speaking Western Europe) and is part of the Jesuit community of Athens.

Fr Theodore Kodidis, 65, is a native of Macedonia. He studied at the Pontifical Greek College in Rome and then went on to study philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After four years of philosophy and theology in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in 1983. A time that he describes as demanding and infinitely rich in graces: "A time of personal structuring and of human and spiritual progress, so many fruits for which I am very grateful".

After his studies at the Centre Sèvres-Facultés jésuites de Paris, he was ordained deacon and priest in Athens in 1988. This was followed by years of parish work, especially in youth work and as editor of the magazine "ANOIXTOI OPIZONTES" (Open Horizons). At the same time, Fr. Kodidis gave the Spiritual Exercises, especially at the Jesuit Spiritual Centre of Inoi, north of Athens, of which he was the Director. In 2020-21, he is in charge of the parish of St. Andrew in Patras as parish priest.

Other appointments of Pope Francis:

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, has been appointed by Pope Francis as the General Relator of the Synod of Bishops, which will focus on synodality. The Milanese Jesuit Giacomo Costa, who sat on the editorial team of the Amazon Synod, was appointed a member of the steering group. The very international theological commission includes the German theologian Christoph Theobald, who teaches in Paris.

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