Apostolos Christodoulou

Apostolos Christodoulou was a Greek priest, theologist and Metropolitan bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Biography Christodoulou was born in 1856 in Agios Theodoros of Imbros, then Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). He completed his studies in his homeland and later studied in the Theological School of Halki for the period of 1874-1881. He served as a Metropolitan bishop of Stavropol from 1901 and later in Veria from 1906 to 1909. Since 1909 he became the Metropolitan bishop of Serres and at the same time helping people suffering from Cholera.

During the First World War in 1917, when Serres was temporarily occupied by the Central Powers, Metropolitan Apostolos was not permitted to get out of his cathedral after an order by the Bulgarian commander. He died there on 14 January 1917 at the age of 60 or 61 under unknown circumstances.