Nicolae Carpathia Nicolae Carpathia Supreme Potentate of the Global Community In office Tribulation Force  –  Glorious Appearing Vice President ( s )    Leon Fortunato ( Supreme Commander ) Preceded by Inaugural Succeeded by Temporarily by Leon Fortunato Former Secretary General of the United Nations , Former Junior Senator for the Romanian Senate ( Chamber of Deputies ) & Former President of Romania In office Left Behind  –  Tribulation Force Preceded by Mwangati Ngumo Succeeded by Incumbent Born Cluj , Romania Nicolae Jetty Carpathia is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the Left Behind book series written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins . Carpathia is the leader of a world government known as the Global Community . He is secretly the Antichrist , and will one day attempt to marshal the forces of the Global Community against the followers of Jesus Christ . Biography Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details follow . Born in the county of Cluj in Romania , Carpathia 's birth is the product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination . His mother , Marilena , is unwittingly convinced by the followers of Satan to become the mother of a child who they assure her will change the face of the world . Marilena 's husband , Sorin , insisted that his `` son '' keep the strong `` Carpathia '' name , however . Even as a young child , Carpathia showed remarkable intellect and athletic ability , and also proved to be extraordinarily manipulative , able to bend others to his will with relative ease . His handlers arranged for his mother to be eliminated , and Nicolae himself eventually demanded the dispatch of his `` father , `` a key to his rise to power . With his advisers and counselors , Carpathia formed a successful import-export business , which quickly made him a millionaire . However , he quickly grew bored with business and finance and , guided by the `` kingmaker '' Leon Fortunato , set his sights on politics . At the age of 33 , Carpathia stepped into the political scene as a junior senator in the lower house of the Romanian legislature . Falling victim to Fortunato 's blackmail , the President of Romania soon abdicated in favor of Carpathia , with the unanimous support of that country 's parliament . Shortly thereafter , in the chaos following the Rapture , Carpathia was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations . Throughout his swift rise to global prominence , he feigned humility , saying he wished only to serve and denying that he ever sought power . Carpathia quickly began effecting changes to the United Nations , converting it into the Global Community , and appointing himself GC Supreme Potentate . Eventually after World War III , he became a dictator , while still portraying himself as a peace-loving , benevolent ruler . After three and a half years in power , Carpathia was assassinated by Chaim Rosenzweig , an Israeli botanist whom he once pretended to befriend . His demise was short-lived , however , as after three days of lying dead , Carpathia 's body was indwelt by Satan himself , thus making Carpathia appear to rise from the dead and further cement his power . Carpathia eventually proclaimed himself God , and demanded that everyone on Earth worship him . With his reign secure , he ordered that golden statues of himself be constructed in every locale possible and commanded that all should worship these statues three times a day , with death as the penalty for failure to obey . Carpathia established `` Carpathianism `` as the only legal religion on Earth and , following the events in the Book of Revelation , decreed that all were required to bear a mark ( the biblical Mark of the Beast ) signifying their loyalty to him and the Global Community in order to buy or sell . At last , he gave out the decree that those who did not accept the mark would be beheaded , along with any who refused to proclaim him as God . In a final surge for complete domination of Earth , Carpathia created the One World Unity Army , composed of all GC military presence on the planet , their mission to destroy the Remnant stronghold of Petra and to take over the city of Jerusalem as the world 's new capital after the destruction of New Babylon . In accordance with the series ' interpretation of Christian Bible prophecy , Carpathia was overthrown with the return of Jesus Christ , who cast him , along with his false prophet Fortunato , into the Lake of Fire for all eternity . In other media In the Left Behind movies , Carpathia is portrayed by Gordon Currie . See also Left Behind series Tim LaHaye Dispensationalism Futurism Summary of Christian eschatological differences edit Major Characters in Left Behind Series Spoiler warning : Plot and/or ending details follow . Original Tribulation Force Members : Rayford Steele | Cameron `` Buck '' Williams | Chloe Steele | Bruce Barnes Other Tribulation Force Members : Tsion Ben-Judah | Chaim Rosenzweig | Albie | Mac McCullum | Abdullah Smith | David Hassid | Chang Wong | Ming Toy | Ree Woo | Ken Ritz | Lionel Whalum | George Sebastian | Priscilla Sebastian | Amanda White | T. M. Delanty | Lukas Miklos | Floyd Charles | Hattie Durham | Steve Plank | Razor | Otto Weser | Naomi Tiberias | Eleazar Tiberias | Gustaf Zuckermandel , Jr. | Hannah Palemoon | Leah Rose | Annie Christopher | Marcel Papadopoulos | Georgiana Stavros The Global Community : Nicolae Carpathia | Leon Fortunato | Viv Ivins | Suhail Akbar | Walter Moon | Peter Mathews | Marilena Carpathia | Reiche Planchette | Aurelio Sequoia Figueroa | Jim Hickman | Ramon Santiago | Clancy Tiber | Guy Blod Others : Joshua Todd-Cothran | Jonathan Stonagal | Bo Hanson | Samuel Hanson | Anika Janssen | Bernadette Rice | Gerald Fitzhugh This box :   view • talk • edit Categories : Characters in Left Behind | Fictional military personnel | Fictional politicians | Fictional religious workers | Film villains | Literature villains | Fictional Romanians | Fictional dictators Nicolae Carpathia Romanian Nicolae_art.jpg Supreme Potentate of the Global Community Tribulation Force Glorious Appearing Inaugural Temporarily by Leon Fortunato Cluj , Romania Har Meggido , Israel Leon Fortunato ( Supreme Commander ) Former Secretary General of the United Nations , Former Junior Senator for the Romanian Senate ( Chamber of Deputies ) & Former President of Romania Left Behind Tribulation Force Mwangati Ngumo Incumbent 