Georgios Mavrogiannitis was born in
Charakas,
Crete in 1968. He migrated to Jerusalem in 1980, becoming a monk in 1986. He was
ordained as a
deacon in 1987, and became a priest in 1992. In 1993 he assumed the office of
archimandrite. He graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the
University of Belgrade in 1995. He served as a professor and headmaster of the Patriarchal School of Sion, as a
parish priest in
Gaza, as an
abbot in Fhes,
Jordan and from 2004 as a Patriarchal Epitropos of Qatar. On 10 March 2013, he was consecrated as Archbishop of Qatar by the
Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III. During the
Qatar diplomatic crisis, he said there was an evacuation plan for the
Greeks of the country, although he opined that it would not need to be carried out. == Controversy ==