Emmanuel “Mike” A. Manatos of the St. George Church in Bethesda, M.D., was invested as Archon on 10/22/2006 and conferred with the offikion name Dikaiophylax. He was the Order’s first third generation Archon, preceded by his grandfather, Mike Manatos, and father, Andrew Manatos. He is President of Manatos & Manatos, described by the Washington Post as “one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying firms.”

Archon Manatos serves on the Executive Board of Leadership 100, has served on the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Church of America since 2008, and has severed on his parish council several times. He served as Conference Chairman of the 3rd Archons International Conference on Religious Freedom: “The Persecution of Christians in the Holy Lands and Middle East, Consequences and Solutions,” December 4-6, 2017 in Washington, DC. In 2014 he served on the team that coordinated the historic Apostolic Pilgrimage of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Frances to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. He serves on the board of several other national Hellenic organizations including the National Hellenic Society and the National Hellenic Student Association.

During his 28-year career as a federal lobbyist, he has devoted much of his time, on a pro-bono basis, to protect and promote the religious freedom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the most influential US policymakers in the US Congress, White House, State Department and other agencies. He also arranges meetings for the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America and other church leaders with various high-level US government officials.

Born in Washington, D.C., he has lived in the D.C. metropolitan area all of his life. He is married to Laura Evans Manatos and they have three children: Sienna, Andrea and Lucas.