Athanasios Angelopoulos
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Katerini
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, Northern Greece) is a Professor
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of Pastoral Theology
Pastoral theology
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at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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; founder and in-honour president of the Institute for National and Religious Studies (Karipion Institute).
He has studied at the Theology School of the University of Athens as well as in University of Belgrade
University of Belgrade
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's Theology School. From 1973 to 1981 he was instructor of theology at Aristotle University; in 1982 he became an assistant professor and in 1984, full professor of Ecclesiastic(Church) History at the Department of Pastoral Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He is the founder and in-honour president
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of the Institute for National and Religious Studies - Karipio Melathro, which is based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Angelopoulos is the co-organizer, alongside with the Greek National Line publishing House of Athens
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, of the program Ecumenical Hellenism
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He has been honoured with the title of the Archon Actuary of the Holy in Christ Great Mother Church, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
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; the award of the Academy of Athens
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, in 1980; and with awards and prizes from churches, states and institutes.
Angelopoulos had been appointed in the past as Secretary
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of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs; he worked as an advisor of the Orthodox
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affairs committee
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of the Greek Parliament and as a special advisor of the Ministry of Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)
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-Thrace
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He has written books about religion, church history, Orthodoxy
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and has been published in magazines, journals and newspapers. He is a collaborator of the newspaper "To Paron".
Having a personal friendship, for many years, with Iakovos, Archbishop of America
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, he was appointed as the responsible for the scientific diligence and publication of the inedited correspondence
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of the late Archbishop.
On January 2007, Angelopoulos was appointed by the Church of Greece
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as special advisor and collaborator of the Holy Synod in Athens
Athens
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Memberships
- President of the Institute for National and Religious Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Member of the Macedonian studies Society, Thessaloniki
- Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (Columbus, OhioColumbus, OhioColumbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
) - Member of the Centre for the Appeals for Freedom (New York), RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n and East European Centre (IllinoisIllinoisIllinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
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External sources
- http://karipeion.wordpress.com - Institute for National and Religious Studies (Karipion Institute)
- http://www.past.auth.gr/tomeas/aggelop.htm (in GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
) - http://www.gnl.gr - Ecumenical Hellenism programme (GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
, EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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