Under the Patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Delphi Economic Forum IX
April 10-13, 2024
Hierotheos Vlachos
Hierotheos Vlachos
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos
Holy Metropolis of Nafpaktos and Saint Vlasios, Greece
Hierotheos (Vlachos), Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St Vlasios of the Church of Greece since 1995. Born in Ioannina (Greece) 1945.
EDUCATION:
Graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki with first class honours 1968. While at the University, he participated in research into manuscripts in monasteries on the Holy Mountain, and in the preparation of the critical edition of the works of St Gregory Palamas, under the guidance of Professor Panagiotis Christou.
TEACHING:
Director of the fast-track Seminary of the Diocese of Edessa, Pella and Almopia (1970-1973).
Director-Speaker at Seminars for Catechists of the Holy Archbishopric of Athens (1988-1995).
Visiting Professor at the Balamand Theological School in Lebanon between, giving courses in Ancient and Modern Greek (1988-1990)
Ethics-Asceticism (1988-1990)
Bioethics (2001)
Honorary Ph.D. Department of Social Theology of the Theological School of the National Capodistrian University of Athens (2008)
Honorary Ph.D. Department of Medicine of the School of Health Sciences of the University of Ioannina (2016).
Adjunct Professor of Orthodox Pastoral Theology and Asceticism on the Doctoral Program at the Antiochian House of Studies in Pennsylvania, USA (teaching in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023).
Lectures given at Universities and Theological Schools in Greece and abroad: University of Athens
University Ecclesiastical Academy of Vellas, Ioannina
Moscow Theological Academy
Theological School of Alba Julia, Romania
University of Seattle, USA
Pacific Lutheran University of Tacoma, USA
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston USA
University of Venice, Italy
Theological School of Tbilisi, Georgia
Theological School of Jassy, Romania.
Lecturer at Conferences: 600 international and Greek conferences and seminars.
AUTHOR:
Books: 125, of which the most significant are the following:
A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain
Orthodox Psychotherapy
The Person in the Orthodox Tradition
Life after Death
Empirical Dogmatics of the Orthodox Catholic Church, Vol. 1 and 2
Patristic and Scholastic Theology in Perspective
St Gregory Palamas as a Hagiorite
The Feasts of the Lord and The Feasts of the Mother of God.
Translated books: 118 into 27 foreign languages.
Academy of Athens Award for the book The Person in the Orthodox Tradition (1996).
Books on which doctoral dissertations have been written:
The Person in the Orthodox Tradition