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Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos

Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios

Ιερόθεος Βλάχος

A Greek theologian and bishop, born in 1945 in Ioannina and Metropolitan of Nafpaktos since 1995. He is known for books on Orthodox spirituality and Orthodox psychotherapy, among them Life After Death (1996).

Born
1945, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece (exact date not given in the sources)
Era
20th–21st century
See
Metropolis of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios (Church of Greece)
Contemporary Writers

Life

Georgios Vlachos was born in 1945 in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece[1][2], and graduated from the theological school of the University of Thessaloniki[1][2]. He was ordained deacon in 1971 (taking the name Hierotheos) and priest in 1972[2]. On 20 July 1995 he was consecrated bishop and, in the same year, elected Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios, which he still serves[2].

OrthodoxWiki presents his work as built around the view that Orthodox theology is "a science of the healing of man" and that the neptic Fathers can help modern people with their inner and existential problems[2]. His main influences are listed as Fr. John Romanides, the hesychast Fathers of the Philokalia, St. Gregory Palamas and the monks of Mount Athos[2].

His books include The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition (1993), Orthodox Psychotherapy (1994) and Life After Death (1996)[1][2]. Life After Death was published by the Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, Levadia[1]; its publisher describes it as covering the departure of the soul from the body up to life after Christ's Second Coming[3]. The Person in the Orthodox Tradition won the Academy of Athens prize for the best theological work written in Greece in 1991–96[1].

Where the sources disagree

Wikipedia gives only the year of his consecration as bishop (1995); OrthodoxWiki gives 20 July 1995 and says he was elected Metropolitan the same year. Wikipedia flags its article as needing citations, and OrthodoxWiki lists the same ISBN for two titles, so details should be checked against the publisher. The Arabic edition of Life After Death (publisher, translator, year) and the page the site quotes were not located. Footnote 3 was seen only as a search-result snippet, not fetched.

Timeline

  1. 1945Born in Ioannina, Epirus.[1]
  2. 1971Ordained deacon.[2]
  3. 1972Ordained priest.[2]
  4. 1995Consecrated bishop on 20 July and elected Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios.[2]
  5. 1996Life After Death published.[1]

Works

Words by topic

Ancestral Sin

Contemporary Writers1

Topics cited in

Ancestral Sin

Notes

  1. [1]Hierotheos Vlachos — Wikipedia (EN)
  2. [2]Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos — OrthodoxWiki
  3. [3]Life After Death — Antiochian Village Bookstore (publisher description; seen in search results only)

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