Athanasios Angelopoulos
Athanasios Angelopoulos, born on 6 November 1939 in Katerini, Greece, is a professor of Pastoral Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the honorary president of the Karipion Melathro Institute for National and Religious Studies.
He studied at the University of Athens and the University of Belgrade's Theology School. From 1973 to 1981 he taught theology at Aristotle University; in 1982 he became an assistant professor and in 1984 a full professor of Church History in the Department of Pastoral Theology.
He helped found the Karipio Melathro Institute in Thessaloniki. He co-organizes the Ecumenical Hellenism program with the Greek National Line publishing House. He has received many honors, including Archon Actuary of the Holy Great Church by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Academy of Athens award in 1980.
He has served in public roles, such as secretary of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, advisor to the Orthodox affairs committee of the Greek Parliament, and special advisor to the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace. He has written books on religion and Orthodoxy and has contributed to magazines and newspapers, including To Paron.
He was close friends with Iakovos, Archbishop of America, and helped publish his unedited correspondence. In January 2007 the Church of Greece named him special advisor and collaborator to the Holy Synod in Athens.
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