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'''Archbishop Damaskinos (Papandreou)''' ([[March 3]], [[1891]]-[[May 20]], [[1949]]) was the archbishop of Athens and all Greece from [[1941]] until his death. He was also the regent of [[Greece]] between the pull-out of the German occupation force in [[1944]] and the return of [[George II]] to Greece in [[1946]]. His rule marked the reconstruction of Greece after German occupation during [[World War II]] and the unrest spanning the beginning of the shooting phase of the [[Greek Civil War]].
He was born Dimitrios Papandreou in [[Dorvitsa]], Greece (no relationship to politician [[Georgios Papandreou]]). He enlisted in the Greek army during the [[Balkan Wars]]. He was ordained a priest of the [[Greek Orthodox Church]] in [[1917]]. In [[1922]], he was made bishop of [[Corinth]]. He spend the early 1930s as an ambassador of the [[Ecumenical Patriarch]] in the United States, where he labored to help organize the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]].
