He was born in Patras, Greece, to a father hailing from the Northern Epirus.  He graduated from the School of Law of the University of Athens, in 1943.  He married Theodora Karpeta and had three children, Olympia, Constantine and Chrysa. In 1946, on a scholarship of UNNRA (United Nations Rehabilitation & Relief Administration), he visited several rehabilitation institutions in England and the US where he stayed for two years.  The same year he recorded the Supplication Canon to Virgin Mary on a gramophone record in Chicago, Ill.  As of 1948 he professionally worked as a lawyer.  In 1955, he led the activities in founding the Association of Friends of Byzantine Music in Patras, serving also as its first president.

His hymnographical work began on the occasion of the repatriation of the Holy Head of the Apostle Andrew, patron Saint of Patras, from Rome to Patras.  He was assigned to conduct the necessary correspondence between the Municipality of Patras and the Vatican (see Historical Dictionary of Patras, by Triantaphyllides, honored with the award of the Academy of Athens).  This event was the occasion for the composition of his first work that belongs to the kind contorial church service.  From then on, he started composing and putting to music hymns – a work on the side, but nevertheless done with zeal and success.  These hymns carry the personal style of their composer and are of classical stature in the terms of poetic text and music.

His hymns are noted for their pulsation, elevation, inventiveness and originality.  Many of his odes are composed in the harmonic grave of the Byzantine Music, with transpositions and parachordal embellishments.  Inspiration lighted upon him during the night, making him rush to record down his streaming poetic flow.  At other times he would withdraw to the countryside to compose hymns.

He ardently admired the Byzantine Patriarchal style of chanting, in which he was self-taught and a restrained expert of music.  An eighteen-year continuous aural exposure to the chanting of N. Mavropoulos, ex-domesticus in the Patriarchal church and a student of Iakovos Naupliotes the Magnificent, greatly contributed to the cantorial style of Elias Bogdanopoulos.

In 1973, he was honored with the officium of the Archon Hymnographer of the Holy and Great Church of Christ (Ecumenical Patriarchate).  He deceased in London, in October 1978.  In 1997, a literary memorial ceremony was held to his memory at the Diakideios School in Patras.

His hymnographical work received a very favorable critique than came from distinguished authorities and personalities, and particularly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, the Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the famous Archbishop and first President of the Republic of Cyprus Makarios, the famous Greek painter Photis Kontoglou, the renowned professor Panayotis Trempelas, the late head cantor of the Patriarchate Constantine Priggos, several noblemen and great cantors from Constantinople, and others.

Many of his hymns were sung by large choirs from the Thessaloniki and Volos, directed by eminent choirmasters, at the Odeon of Herod Atticus, Athens, and at the Ancient Odeon of Patras, on the occasion of festive presentations.  During such a concert at the Odeon of Herod Atticus in Athens (19..), the event was honored by the presence and speech of Mgr. Christodoulos, then Metropolitan Bishop of Volos and now Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.