| Makarios | |
| Archbishop of Qatar | |
| Church: | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Archdiocese: | Qatar |
| Ordination: | 1987 |
| Enthroned: | 10 March 2013 |
| Birth Name: | Georgios Mavrogiannakis |
| Birth Date: | 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Charakas, Crete, Greece |
| Religion: | Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Alma Mater: | University of Belgrade |
Makarios (el|Μακάριος, né Georgios Mavrogiannakis (el|Γεώργιος Μαυρογιαννάκης); born Charakas, 1968) is the Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of Qatar.
Georgios Mavrogiannitis was born in Charakas, Crete in 1968. He migrated to Jerusalem in 1980, becoming a monk in 1986. He was ordained as a deacon in 1987, and became a priest in 1992. In 1993 he assumed the office of archimandrite. He graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade in 1995. He served as a professor and headmaster of the Patriarchal School of Sion, as a parish priest in Gaza, as an abbot in Fhes, Jordan and from 2004 as a Patriarchal Epitropos of Qatar. On 10 March 2013, he was consecrated as Archbishop of Qatar by the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III.[1] [2] During the Qatar diplomatic crisis, he said there was an evacuation plan for the Greeks of the country, although he opined that it would not need to be carried out.[3]
His appointment was contested by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, which claimed Qatar to be under its own jurisdiction.[4]