He was born in 1879 in Thessaloniki. He studied at the Law School of Athens and began practising law in Thessaloniki during the Turkish occupation. There he was a secret partner and supporter of the champions of Macedonian freedom. He fought vigorously as a defender of the Greek Patriots persecuted by the Turks. After the liberation of Macedonia, he enlisted and took up a leading position in Military Justice.

In 1926 he was elected Member of Parliament for Thessaloniki. He was appointed a member of the Council of State in 1929 and was promoted to the post of Vice-President, a position he held until his death. He was also President of the Public Psychiatric Hospital and Vice-President of the Archaeological Society. He was awarded the Golden Cross of the Phoenix and military decorations of laurel in the Greek-Turkish and Bulgarian wars.

He entered Freemasonry in 1903 in St. “Athena” No. 9, where, among others, Eleftherios Venizelos in 1897, Eugenios Zalokostas, Ambassador and Minister and Nik. Votsis, the torpedo pilot of the Turkish battleship ‘Fetich Bulen’ in the port of Thessaloniki. He served as the rector of St. “Philip”. In 1929 he was elected Proc. In 1929, he was elected as a Grand Master and in 1932 as a Grand Master until 18 May 1947. At the beginning of the war in 1940 he sent monumental proclamations to the foreign Masonic Powers asking for their help for the Greek Nation fighting for Freedom against the Axis forces.

Gestapo forces occupied the Masonic Hall on 27 April 1941, where they destroyed everything and confiscated all the records with the names of the members of Greek Freemasonry. Ad. Philotas Papageorgiou was arrested and taken to Averoff Prison, where he was isolated and strictly forbidden to communicate with anyone. He was released following the actions of Br. Hadjipanos. After his return to the throne, King George II, also a Mason, sent him a letter expressing regret for what he had suffered from the barbarity of the Germans.

He was transferred to the Eternal East on May 18, 1947.