PASOK’s founding executive died on Saturday morning
On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at 13:00, from the Church of Saint Theodore of the First Cemetery, The funeral of Christos Rocophyllou.
Former Minister and Ambassador, as well as a PASOK founding official, died on Saturday morning, 24/5 at the age of 94.
The deceased’s family announced yesterday the details of his funeral. It is a request for wreaths to donate to the Parents’ Association of Children with Neoplastic Disease “The Flame”, ELEPAP and ELEPAP Agrinio.
The announcement of the family of Christos Rocophyllou:
Our beloved wife, father, grandfather Christos Rocochecal Minister, Ambassador ET, Lawyer is guarded tomorrow Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:00 from the Church of Saint Theodore of the First Cemetery of Athens.
The wife: Elsa
Children: Constantis and Helen, Anna and Spilios
The grandchildren: Emmanuela, Christiana, Panos
The other relatives and friends.
A request of the family, as instead of wreaths, donations to the Parents Association of Children with Neoplastic Disease “The Flame”, ELEPAP and ELEPAP Agrinio
His children, Anna and Constantis, bid him farewell to their posts.
Their sorrow was expressed, inter alia, by the Speaker of the House Nikitas Kaklamanis, the PASOK, the Mayor of Athens Haris Doukas and others.
Who was Christos Rocophyllos
The deceased had been Deputy Minister of Industry, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, PASOK Ambassador of Aitoloakarnania, Ambassador of Greece to Paris and the Vatican, as well as Governor of the Agricultural Bank, while he was the main lawyer of Andreas.
Christos Rokofyllos was born on 19/11/1931, in Amfilochia, married to Elsa Agathonikou, with whom he had a son Constantine and a daughter, Anna.
He had graduated from the University of Athens Law School and had a doctorate Diploma of Higher Legal Studies (DES) at the University of Sorbonne Paris.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Group ” Alexandros Papanastasiou ” since 1965. On April 22, 1967, the day after the dictatorship of the colonels, along with S. Karagiorga, K. Simitis, M. Deloukas and other Democrats founded the resistance organization.
In October 1967, he was first arrested by the dictatorship regime and imprisoned in the basements of Bouboulina Street. In 1969, in July, he was arrested for the second time, held three months in strict isolation and six months with other Democrats to lead to the long -standing trial of 34, when the military court sentenced him to five years in prison. During the dictatorship there was a defense lawyer in many resistance trials.
On August 31, 1974, after the collapse of the dictatorship, he was elected a member of the administration
Committee of Democratic Defense, which negotiated and agreed to merger with PASOK.
In 1975, it was erased for a short time by the party. In 1977, he was elected for the first time a member of Aitoloakarnania with the PASOK ballot. From October 1981 to the summer of 1982, he served as Governor of the Agricultural Bank. In the period 1989-1993, he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. On September 24, 1990, at the 2nd PASOK Congress, he was elected a member of the Central Committee, and he was a parliamentary spokesman for the party from 1993-1994.
On April 17, 1994, at the PASOK 3rd Congress, he was re -elected a member of the Central Committee, and on July 8 of the same year, he took over as a deputy minister of industry for the first time.
On June 30, 1996, at the PASOK 4th Congress, he was re -elected member of the Movement. In 1997, he took over as head of the Greek parliamentary delegation in NATO.
In March 1999, at the 5th Congress of the Movement, he was re -elected a member of the JU and in April of the same year, he was appointed Secretary of the Foreign and Defense Department.
In July of that year, he took over as Deputy Foreign Minister – after the death of Yiannos Kranidiotis – until April 2000. On October 7, 2000, he resigned from a member of the PASOK Central Committee.