He was born in Pteri south of Aigio and was the brother of Christos Gofas. He worked with the Petmezades and founded to preserve one of them from the Turks during the robbery of 1806. During the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, he participated with Dimitrios Meletopoulos and battled several battles in the Peloponnese. He took part in the Sieges of Patras, Corinth, Tripoli and the battles of Akrata, Dramali, Messenia, Battle of Doliana and on August 8, 1827 in Kafkaria (). He discriminated from the family in which he was injured twice, in the battles of Dervenaki in 1825 and Krommydi in 1827 near Pylia.