He was born in 1840 in Ermoupolis, Syros, to a Chian father, a merchant. He received his secondary education in Syros and then went to Italy, France and England to perfect his studies, mainly in Philology. He remained for many years in England, supporting himself from his large fortune. After his return to Syros, he married the daughter of the Rear Admiral Thras.

In 1867 Nicholas Damaskinos, who was then temporarily exercising the duties of Grand Master, invited him to accept the office of Grand Master and to this end he was initiated in October 1869 into St. “St. Andrew” (in Scotland, where he resided) to the three symbolic degrees. After a few days he was initiated into the rank of Knight of the King’s Arms, then into Knight of the East and West, then into Knight of the East and West, then into Knight of the East and West. Rhodes.+ and on 28 April 1870 was raised to the 33rd rank, and at the same time was made a member of the Scottish Lords Council with a mandate to establish in Greece a Hypat. He became a member of the Scottish Government in Greece and was appointed to the Greek Council of Scotland. 33rd.

After the signing in 1871 of the peace treaty of the Franco-German war, he left London and arrived in Athens on 20 October 1871. He communicated with all the individual lodges of Greece and after visiting them, he organized a General Assembly, which met on July 21, 1872, under the presidency of Nicholas Damaskinos, and proceeded to elect nine brethren as members of the Council of the Grand Orient of Greece, who unanimously nominated as Grand Master Prince Demetrios Rodokanakis, an active member of the Grand Council. 33rd of Scotland, a regular member of the St. “Saint Andrew” and honorary member of the St. Andrew’s Society. “Panhellenic”.

When in 1895 there was a rupture in the bosom of the Great East, Rhodokanakis, then a life-long Grand Master and Supreme Grand Master, came from Syros to Athens at the invitation of the Greek Orthodox Church to restore order. He took care of the reorganization of the Great Anat.., which elected on 27 September 1895 through the Assembly of the representatives of the seven lodges of Athens “Pythagoras”, “Athena”, “Panhellenion”, “Marathon”, “Socrates”, “Parthenon” and “Atticus Astir” a new Council of the Grand Anatolian of Greece, whose swearing in and installation took place on 1 October, presided over by Demetrios Rodokanakis. He watched the proceedings of our area until his death in January 1902.