Makarios of Qatar

Makarios (Greek: Μακάριος, né Georgios Mavrogiannakis (Greek: Γεώργιος Μαυρογιαννάκης); born Charakas, 1968) is the Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of Qatar.

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.^[1][2] 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.^[3]

His appointment was contested by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, which claimed Qatar to be under its own jurisdiction.^[4]