He was born in Athens in 1932. He entered the Military School in 1950 and received his medical degree from the Aristotle University of Athens in 1956. He served as a military doctor until 1984 and retired with the rank of Brigadier. He specialised in pathology and was awarded a doctorate by the University of Athens in 1963. He retrained in Paris in nephrology and for many years headed the first Nephrology Department of the Army Pension Fund Nursing Institute until 1988.
He was elected Professor of Pathology at the Aristotle University of Athens in 1982 and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1984, President of the Society of Nephrology 1990-1992 and Vice President of the European Association of Medical Specialties in Nephrology (1994-1995). He was married to Aglaia Papandreou and was the father of two children.
He entered Freemasonry in 1965 in St. “Tsimiskis” and served as the Rev. of St. “Skendermbeis” (1981-1983), Grand Diocese (1995-2001) and was elevated to the 33rd degree in 1994. In 1997 he achieved the recognition of the Supreme Grand Pigeon of Greece (founded in 1993) by the International Grand Pigeon of Greece. He opened the Masonic Hall in Elefsina (inaugurated on 24 June 2000) and established the Open Events of the Masonic Foundation with the participation of personalities from the world of Letters and Science. Since 1995, it has participated as a regular member in the Annual Conferences of the Grand Masters of Europe and organised the 1997 Conference in Athens. Since the end of 1995, with brief actions towards the Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, it submitted a detailed memorandum to the Pedagogical Institute, achieving the removal of the chapter in the religious education textbook for the second grade of the Lyceum in which Freemasonry was referred to as an alleged religious sect and as an anti-national organisation. He produced a series of publications (Lodges, Multilingual Glossary of Terms) and made a significant contribution to the re-recognition of the Grand Lodge by the United Nations. (2000). In honour of his entire contribution and in particular his dignity and ethos, the Hellenic Orthodox Church has published a commemorative volume of his writings.
He was awarded the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I, the Medal of Military Merit, the Gold Medal of the Cross of Honor of the Apostle and Evangelist Mark of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, as well as the special Diploma of the Grand Master of the Great Patriarchate of St. of Greece.
He was transferred to the Eternal East on March 5, 2007.