Karolos Papoulias

Karolos Papoulias
Κάρολος Παπούλιας
Papoulias in 2009
President of Greece
In office 12 March 2005 – 13 March 2015
Prime Minister	Kostas Karamanlis George Papandreou Lucas Papademos Panagiotis Pikrammenos Antonis Samaras Alexis Tsipras
Preceded by	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Succeeded by	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 13 October 1993 – 22 January 1996
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Michalis Papakonstantinou
Succeeded by	Theodoros Pangalos
In office 26 July 1985 – 2 July 1989
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Ioannis Charalambopoulos
Succeeded by	Tzannis Tzannetakis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office 20 November 1977 – 7 March 2004
Constituency	Ioannina
Personal details
Born	(1929-06-04)4 June 1929 Molyvdoskepastos, Ioannina, Greece
Died	26 December 2021(2021-12-26) (aged 92) Athens, Greece
Resting place	Ioannina Island, Greece
Political party	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Spouse	Mary Panou
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Athens University of Milan University of Cologne
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Karolos Papoulias (Greek: Κάρολος Παπούλιας [ˈkarolos paˈpuʎas]; 4 June 1929 – 26 December 2021) was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.^[1]

A member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), he previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1993 until 1996.^[2]