His Grace Bishop bartholomew of charoupolis

His Grace Bishop Bartholomew (in the world Peter Anastasiadis) was born in 1980 in Sydney Australia. He completed his secondary studies at Kingsgrove North High School in 1997. He then studied at St Andrews Theological College, receiving a Bachelor of Theology Degree at the same time while being a member of the Central Youth Committee of the first Archdiocesan District of Sydney. He then worked for over a decade in Senior Management in the Retail and Finance sectors.

He was ordained a Deacon at the Church of St Euphemia at Bankstown on the 11 March 2012 by the then assistant Bishop His Grace of Apollonia and present Metropolitan of Sevastia, His Eminence Seraphim receiving the name Prochoros. As a Deacon, he served in the Archiepiscopal Court. On the 1 March 2014 he was ordained Presbyter at the church of Sts Raphael Nicholas Irene Liverpool where he was appointed the Assistant Priest of the Parish. In 2015 he was bestowed the title of Archimandrite by the late Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory.

In March 2017 he was transferred to the large Parish Community of The Resurrection of Christ Kogarah and appointed as an Assistant Parish Priest. In 2019, he returned to the church of Sts Raphael Nicholas and Irene Liverpool, appointed as Parish Priest and Confessor. In December 2020 he was appointed by His Eminence Archbishop of Australia as the Archiepiscopal Vicar of Canberra. In 2021 he was appointed as the representative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia in the Australian Council of Churches. On August 30 of the same year following the proposal of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, he was elected by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate as Bishop of Charioupolis.

On November 21, 2021 he was ordained to the Episcopacy by the hands of Archbishop Makarios of Australia at the Church of St Nicholas Sydney receiving the name Bartholomew, In honour of our present Ecumenical Patriarch.