Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St Vlassios

1. Entity type Person
2. Name in other language Ἱερόθεος, Μητροπολίτης Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου κ (en)
3. Birth date 1945
4. Given Name
   1. Georgios Vlachos
5. Biographical Data
   1. His Eminence Hierotheos, Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlassios graduated from the Theological School of Thessaloniki in 1968. He holds two honorary PhDs from the University of Athens and from the University of Ioannina. He has served as a lay preacher in “Apostoliki Diakonia” (1969-1971) and he was appointed an Archimandrite in 1972. He was elected Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlassios on 1995. Metropolotan Hierotheos also founded the Holy Monastery of the Birth of the Theotokos (Pelagia) in the Diocese of Thebes and Levadia. He has taught courses in Greek language (ancient and modern), in Christian Ethics and in Bioethics at the Balamand Theological School “St. John of Damascus” and he has served repeatedly as Press Representative of the Permanent Holy Synod and the Synod of the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece. He has written more than 96 books with theological, ecclesiological and social content, based on the teaching of the holy Fathers. Seventy-eight of these books have been translated. He has also published articles in daily and weekly newspapers.
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