Demetrios I of Constantinople

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Demetrios I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Installed	July 16, 1972
Term ended	October 2, 1991
Predecessor	Athenagoras I
Successor	Bartholomew I
Personal details
Born	Demetrios Papadopoulos (1914-09-08)September 8, 1914 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	October 2, 1991(1991-10-02) (aged 77) Phanar, Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Ottoman and Turkish
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church

Demetrios I, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos (Greek: Δημήτριος Αʹ, Δημήτριος Παπαδόπουλος; September 8, 1914 – October 2, 1991), was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 16, 1972, to October 2, 1991, serving as the spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.^[1][2] Before his election as patriarch, he served as the metropolitan bishop of Imvros. He was born in Istanbul in modern-day Turkey, then known as Constantinopole, where he also died.^[2]