Angelos Halikiopoulos was born in Corfu on the 21st of April 1757. The distinguished Corfiot was the son of a noble family, which was already registered in the Golden Book “Libro d’Oro” of the Nobles of Corfu in 1672, while his father’s brother Emmanuel was the Grand Pontiff in the period 1780-1784.

He was a Doctor of Laws and practiced law for many years. He distinguished himself in all the high public positions to which he was appointed by the various administrations of the Ionian Islands from the time of the Venetian Government up to the time of the British Protectorate. He served as Supervisor of Forage, member and Vice President of the Senate of the State of the Ionian State 1803-1807, rapporteur of the Drafting Committee of the Ionian Constitution of 1803, President of the Committee of the San Giacomo Theatre in the period 1805-1812, member of the Courts of Corfu from 1802 and Lefkada from 1816, President of the Criminal Court in 1822, for many years lawyer of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Orthodox Church, Member of Parliament for Corfu in 1834, Trustee of the Banco di Risparmio in 1836, member of the Legislative Assembly and of the Council of the Cataract in 1838-1839, temporary Deputy Mayor of Corfu in 1839, deputy deputy in 1837-1839 and member of the Senate of the United State of the Ionian Islands from 1840 until his death.

For his services the Queen of England Victoria awarded him on 14 October 1839 the title of Knight of the distinguished Order of St Michael and St George and on 21 April 1842 appointed him Knight Brigadier of the Order.

He was probably initiated into Freemasonry in the ancient Lodge La Beneficenza of which he was also its Venerable Master at some time before 1806. For this reason he is mentioned as a Former Venerable in the yearbook for the year 1815 of the Bienfaisance et Philogénie Réunies Lodge No. 1361 under the auspices of the Grand Orient of France. On the establishment of the Grand Orient of Greece in 1816 he was elected from the beginning Assistant Grand Master of the Grand Orient, with Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, as Grand Master. After the latter’s death in April 1843, he was effectively Grand Master until his own death in November of the same year. Of these we may now documentedly regard Angelos Halikiopoulos as the second Grand Master of the Glorious Great East of Greece. Anatolios of Corfu under the auspices of the Great Anatolian of France, of November 13, 1843.

Angelos Halikiopoulos was perhaps the most important personality of Corfiot Freemasonry in the 19th century and led it for a total of thirty years.